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Microsoft Fabric FabCon 2026 announcements that will transform your data stack
March 25^th, 2026 in Blog, Community, Microsoft Fabric, News, Power BI
What Microsoft just revealed about the future of enterprise analytics… Microsoft’s FabCon 2026 conference unveiled a transformative vision for enterprise data and AI integration. Rather than incremental improvements to existing tools, the announcements represent a fundamental architectural shift. Fabric is evolving from a passive data platform into an active intelligence layer that drives real-time, autonomous decision-making across…
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Is ETL now a Circular Process?
December 24^th, 2025 in Blog, Business Intelligence, Data analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, PowerBI
Traditionally, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) has been a one-way journey. Data is extracted from operational systems, it’s transformed into a clean, structured format and then it’s loaded into a data store (typically a warehouse or lakehouse), rinse and repeat. But what’s after that? Business users build reports and dashboards and make a decisions from their insights, but the data itself never flows back into the systems where the work…
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Microsoft Fabric: Should I Use a Data Warehouse or Lakehouse?
September 1^st, 2023 in Blog, Data Warehouse, Fabric, Power BI, Spark, SQL
Fabric is the newest data analytics platform from Microsoft. It brings together the entire analytics process onto the Power BI service, meaning that you no longer need to be moving your data around from different services. The introduction of OneLake means that all data that you import whether from Cloud servers, On-Premises servers or more is available in one central location. With Fabric, you need to choose how you will store the data that you…
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How do I make a multi-line string in Python (so I can ctrl+C my SQL code)
August 29^th, 2023 in Blog, Jupyter, Machine Learning, Python, Spark, SQL
This should be a quick one, but it is something that took me a little while to work out, but now I know I use it pretty much every day in my projects to save me a lot of time. This is the ability to copy and paste my SQL code into my python code as a multi-line string without having to reduce it to be all on one line or using escape characters. Both of which can take a bit of time depending on how big your SQL is. You usually need to have SQL…
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Microsoft Fabric FabCon 2026 announcements that will transform your data stack

Is ETL now a Circular Process?

Microsoft Fabric: Should I Use a Data Warehouse or Lakehouse?

How do I make a multi-line string in Python (so I can ctrl+C my SQL code)

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