How to calculate Microsoft Fabric costs
I was going to update my existing blog post with regards to the fabric costs. I was then fortunate to be contacted by David Brown from the Microsoft Fabric team who gave me additional details in terms of how to correctly calculate the fabric costs. What is a Capacity Unit or CU? You can think of a CU as CPU…
Microsoft Fabric – Comparing Dataflow Gen2 vs Notebook on Costs and usability
In this blog post I am going to compare Dataflow Gen2 vs Notebook in terms of how much it costs for the workload. I will also compare usability as currently the dataflow gen2 has got a lot of built in features which makes it easier to use. The goal of this blog post is to understand which in my opinion…
How to grant individual users access to create Fabric items/workloads
I was recently working with a customer where I was showing them the awesome new features of Microsoft fabric. I then created a workspace and attempted to grant the individual users access to the workspace to create fabric items or workloads. When the users went into the app workspace with the fabric settings, enabled, the users could not create any…
Microsoft Fabric – Notebook session usage explained (And how to save CU’s or billed time)
I was working on a blog post to determine which consumed fewer Fabric Capacity Units (CU’s), and when I was initially testing this was getting some unexpected results. In a future blog post I will compare a Dataflow Gen2 or Notebook and which one consumes less CU’s In this blog post I’m going to explain the. Lessons are learned when…
An easy way to transform/clean your data using a Notebook in Microsoft Fabric
In this blog post I am going to show you an easy way to clean your data (which is often fixing data issues or mis-spelt data) using the new feature Launch Data Wranger using DataFrames I had previously blogged about using Pandas data frames but this required extra steps and details, if you are interested in that blog post you…
Power BI Report for Microsoft Fabric Support Page
This will be one of my shorter blog posts What I wanted to show you is that I have created a Power BI report which shows the Microsoft Fabric Support page details. I created one for Power BI which I receive daily, and it is great to get the subscription so that I am aware of any potential issues or…
How to schedule a Power BI dataset refresh to start at the exact time you want it to start
I have seen some questions in the Power BI / Fabric Community forum asking why datasets with a scheduled refresh do not start based on the user’s selection. In this blog post I am going to show you how you can schedule a Power BI dataset to start at the exact time you want it to be refreshed. Please NOTE:…
Power BI Dataset refresh failed with Personal Cloud Connections
This week I was working with a customer where they had a dataset that was previously refreshing successfully and not it failed. It failed with the error “Due to consecutive errors, scheduled refresh has been disabled. Please resolve the error on the dataset and then re-enable.” If the refresh fails too many times it also disables the scheduled refresh. When…
How to create and use keys (A work around for Primary Keys) in Fabric data warehouses
When I started looking into using the data warehouses feature in Fabric, I did see that there were limitations on Primary Key columns. Below is my blog post on how I still use keys in my data warehouse, instead of using GUID’s which to me are long and hard to use. In my example I am going to create a…
How to easily send an Excel extact using a paginated report in Power BI
The goal of this blog post is to show you how to create a subscription which sends the data in an Excel attachment. To do this I will first create a paginated report off an existing dataset. Once the paginated report is created, I will then create a subscription with the Excel attachment. I could then share this paginated report…