while back I wrote about setting up Mirroring for an Azure SQL Database in Fabric. It worked great, minimal setup, near real time replication, and it's free. Case closed, right? Not quite. Since then I kept running into the same question from people testing Fabric: "ok but
Part A - Azure trial account setup Step 1 - Create a free Azure trial account Go to azure.microsoft.com/free. Click "Start free." You get $200 credit for 30 days - more than enough for this test. Sign in with your Microsoft account (the same one you use for
When I accepted the challenge of becoming Microsoft Fabric Practice Lead at Devoteam, I had 13 years of experience behind me - traditional SQL Server BI, Oracle Retail consulting, and six years deep in Google Cloud building data platforms with BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, and Looker. (not only, but mainly) What I
I spent six years building data platforms on Google Cloud. BigQuery was at the centre of almost everything - ingestion, transformation, analytics, cost management. After a while you stop thinking about the tool and start thinking about the problem, which is usually when you discover that the features doing the most
Atlanta delivered. Now comes the hard part. FabCon 2026 in Atlanta was the biggest one yet - over 8,000 attendees, co-located with SQLCon for the first time, and a keynote that made it clear Microsoft is no longer positioning Fabric as just an analytics platform. The message from the
Let me be honest with you I have been working in data since 2013. From classic SQL Server BI stacks (SSIS pipelines, SSAS cubes, DAX) to a full shift in 2020 into modern data engineering on Google Cloud: BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, Great Expectations, Looker. Over a decade across consultancy projects,