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  • Alex Presented at Bristol Fabric & Power BI User Group

    December 24th, 2024 in Community, Microsoft Fabric, News, Power BI

    On December 19th, Alex travelled from The Frogplex to Bristol to present a session at the Bristol Fabric & Power BI User Group. The focus of his presentation was on Power BI Composite and Advanced Models . The session explored how to effectively leverage these advanced techniques to handle large datasets within the Power BI environment. This includes combining diverse datasets into a single report through composite models, directly querying…

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  • Deep Dive into Power BI & Fabric Governance at PASS Data Summit

    Deep Dive into Power BI & Fabric Governance at PASS Data SummitNovember 7th, 2024 in Community, News, Power BI

    We’re thrilled to share that our very own Joe recently took the stage at the PASS Data Summit to deliver an insightful session on “BI the Book: Governance, Auditing, and DR for Power BI & Fabric”… Featuring Power BI Sentinel! Why governance matters… Data governance and security are often overlooked in the initial stages of building a data environment. However, neglecting these crucial aspects can lead to…

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  • Purple Frog Systems Sponsors FabFest

    October 10th, 2024 in Artificial Intelligence, Fabric, Just For Fun, News

    On October 3rd, the team at Purple Frog Systems proudly sponsored FabFest, an exciting, full-day event focused on Microsoft Fabric and its impact on the evolving worlds of data and AI. Hosted at the impressive Millennium Point in Birmingham, FabFest brought together 100 data enthusiasts for a day of non-stop learning, exploration, and community building. FabFest was the brainchild of Joe and Lewis, the dynamic hosts of the Birmingham Data…

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  • FabCon Europe from a Community Point-of-View

    October 2nd, 2024 in Blog, Community, Fabric, Uncategorised

    A community hub at a data conference serves as a vital central point for building connections, collaboration, and innovation among attendees. The Community Lounge at FabCon Europe in Stockholm was a great example of this. It was a hive of activity across the entire event. Microsoft’s community staff, MVPs, volunteers and members all came together to provide an entertaining way to network and ensure the right people are signed up to the right…

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  • My Experience at Fabric Community Conference Europe 2024

    October 1st, 2024 in Blog, Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Fabric, Power BI

    Stockholm: A city of charm and innovation Let’s start with the location, Stockholm. As a seasoned traveller, Stockholm is one of the few major European cities that I have not yet visited. So, when given the chance to go to FabCon Europe, I jumped at the chance. Stockholm is a great city, with beautiful historic architecture mixed with modern innovation and the people there were friendly and warm. The conference centre, the Stockholmsmässan,…

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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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  • Fabric Trials: The Countdown Is On

    May 21st, 2024 in Azure, Blog, Fabric, Power BI

    We are drawing near to the end of Microsoft Fabric trials! ⌛ With the countdown ending mid-June for many trial capacities, it is important that you take measures to protect any Microsoft Fabric resources you have. Microsoft have informed users that once the trial ends, the capacity will be converted to a Power BI Premium capacity where Fabric items can no longer be used or stored. From here, you will have a 7 day retention period before all…

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  • How to call Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines dynamically using APIs

    May 14th, 2024 in Blog, Fabric

    The Microsoft Fabric REST APIs allow you to automate Fabric procedures and processes. In this blog post, we’ll focus on a specific API: “Run On Demand Item Job” To dynamically call another data pipeline, we’ll utilise this API within a data pipeline web activity. By passing in the itemId of the data pipeline we want to invoke, we can trigger its execution. You can learn more here:…

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  • Microsoft Fabric Mirroring: Quick Start Guide

    April 17th, 2024 in Blog, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, Fabric

    Mirroring provides a modern approach to accessing and ingesting data continuously and seamlessly from any database or data warehouse into the Data Warehousing experience within Microsoft Fabric. Here are the key points about Mirroring: Near Real-Time Data Access: Mirroring allows users to access changes in the source data almost instantly. It ensures that the data in Fabric’s OneLake remains up-to-date without complex setup or manual…

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  • New Microsoft Fabric Features – A SQLBits and FabCon Round Up!

    April 12th, 2024 in Blog, Data Factory, Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Fabric, Machine Learning, Real-time Data

    March was a big month for Microsoft Fabric and its users as there were two major conferences discussing all aspects of Microsoft Fabric, from functionality to security and governance. SQLBits, a community conference, came first with a wealth of knowledge from experts using Microsoft Fabric from a beginner to experienced level. FabCon immediately followed, which was a conference from Microsoft to announce new features and to hear from those…

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