What is Microsoft Fabric, and why do you want some? Richard talks to Andrew Snodgrass of Directions on Microsoft about Microsoft's recently announced Fabric product. Andrew explains that Fabric is an effort to integrate the various data products, including PowerBI, DataLake, Data Factory, and Data Warehousing, under a standard banner. It is early days for Fabric, but it's a great time to take it out for a spin for those who haven't dug into Azure data analytics products. But if you have existing implementations of PowerBI and many other data products, test carefully - the migration paths aren't simple!

Links:

• Microsoft Fabric
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure Data Factory
• Power BI
• Fabric Workspaces
• OneLake
• Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Parquet Files in Fabric
• Microsoft Purview
• OneLake File Explorer

Recorded July 12, 2023