data-engineering - cloudingdata

microsoft-fabric

Fabric Mirroring for Azure SQL Database

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

google-cloud

Three BigQuery features I've used frequently and always taught to Junior Engineers

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

fabcon-2026

FabCon 2026: What Actually Matters for Data Engineers and Tech Leads

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

microsoft-fabric

Why Most Companies Fail at Data Quality and What Rules You Should Actually Apply at Each Layer

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,