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Tag Archive: Data Lakehouse

  • Back Up and Restore a Fabric Lakehouse

    Jon wearing a black and purple Purple Frog Systems polo shirt, standing in front of a graphic background featuring hexagonal patterns and an image of a lakeside house surrounded by trees. Text on the image reads: “Back Up and Restore a Fabric Lakehouse.”November 27th, 2025 in Backup, Blog, Fabric, Restore Point

    Fabric Lakehouses have been around for a while, but they still offer no native way to back them up or restore them. Fortunately, the way Lakehouses are structured makes it possible to build your own backup process. A Lakehouse is split into two areas: Files and Tables. The Files area is straightforward, you can download and back up these items directly. The Tables are powered by Delta tables, which are made up of two key components: the…

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  • FabFest 2025: Running the Microsoft Fabric Clinic!

    Laura-Jayne wearing a black Purple Frog Systems polo shirt, standing in front of a graphic background with hexagonal patterns and an event photo of people networking. Text on the image reads: “FabFest 2025: Running the Microsoft Fabric Clinic!” along with the FabFest logo.October 16th, 2025 in Blog, Community, Data Lakehouse, Fabric, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Sponsoring Event

    FabFest is a great community conference held in Birmingham, UK, that Purple Frog Systems has sponsored for the past 2 years. This year, we had the opportunity to host 2 clinics for attendees, where they could learn more about Microsoft Fabric or AI solutions, or troubleshoot issues currently faced in these areas. Why did we choose to run these clinics? At last year’s conference, we had several attendees approach us with questions about…

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  • Ownership Made Easy: Microsoft Fabric Warehouse Takeovers

    June 19th, 2024 in Blog, Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Fabric

    Fabric Warehouse Ownership Takeover As part of your project you have created and developed a Fabric Warehouse and now it is time to transfer the ownership of it away from your account to a production Service Principal Name or someone else in the organisation to maintain. There’s no simple method in the GUI so how do you do it? You use the Takeover API. Let’s go through the process step-by-step but beware, there is one caveat, you MUST…

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

    September 1st, 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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