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People who want to get started using Microsoft Fabric or who would like an overview of its capabilities.
3 days
This is a foundation course. Attendees do not need any prior knowledge of Microsoft Fabric or Power BI.
Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics solution that covers everything from data movement to data science, and business intelligence with Power BI. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including data lake, data engineering, SQL and data integration, all in one place. This is a hand-on introduction to Fabric. During the course we will build the components of a data analysis system in Fabric: data engineering, data science and Business intelligence with Power BI.
What is Fabric? What are the advantages of Fabric. What problems does it solve?
First look at the main components of Microsoft Fabric.
Workspace, lakehouse and OneLake, warehouse, semantic model, Power BI, Azure Data Factory (ADF), delta parquet files, shortcuts, The languages and tools: SQL, Python and Spark
This main part of the course is a guided hands-on tutorial that briefly covers many of the tasks we can do in Fabric. We will
Since Fabric is a SaaS solution, attendees only need a browser and access to the internet. However, they need to be registered on the classroom Fabric tenant before the course. They will need to provide a work email address, and before the course run a test to check that they have access (this will take 15 - 30 minutes and is part of the learning)