Fabric Community Update - January 2025

 

Join us at the 2025 Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 

2024 introduced #FabCon, the Fabric Community Conferences that attracted over 8,000 Fabric fans across 2 sold out conferences in Las Vegas and Stockholm. 

 

FabCon 2025 in Las Vegas from March 31 to April 2 will be the biggest-ever FabCon. With 4 keynotes, 215 sessions, and 20 full-day workshops covering Power BI, Fabric, SQL and AI, it’s the ultimate learning event for BI professionals, database professionals, and developers. 

 

Here are 5 more reasons to join us at FabCon in 2025: 

1. The extremely popular Ask the Experts enclave with 12+ dedicated booths to answer your trickiest technical, capacity, and billing questions. 
2. The much-anticipated FREE Partner Pre-Day for systems integrators to help grow their Fabric practice. 
3. The buzzing Community Lounge to connect and collaborate with like-minded professionals, stalwarts (and celebrities) in the data community. 
4. The ever-popular Power Hour where you are guaranteed to learn NOTHING but may luck out with cool swag.  
5. And brand new at FabCon 2025, a Power BI visualization showdown where you get to watch and vote on the best of the best competing for our world title! 

Use code MSCUST for a $150 discount. Prices go up February 11th! Need help convincing your boss, use this letter!  

 

Be one of the first to pass Exam DP-700 - Fabric Data Engineer

The Fabric team has 20,000 discount vouchers to give away to people that are ready to become a Certified Fabric Analytics Engineer. You have until March 31st, or while supplies last, to submit your request for 50% off the price of exam DP-700.

 

Over 44 live (and on-demand) learning sessions, led by Fabric experts, are available in 4 time zones and 3 languages to help you prepare for the exam. Register now, the sessions start January 28th.

 

Power BI Announcements

Check out the Power BI Update - January 2025 to learn about new features in Reporting, Modeling, and Data Connectivity. 

 

Popular blogs

Here are some community blogs from the past month, that are getting attention and that you might be interested in!

 

• Introducing the new text slicer in Power BI by @saud968
• BI Adoption Simplified: Optimizing Data Practices with Microsoft Fabric (part 1) by @technolog 
• Securing Your Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: A Comprehensive Guide by @indirabandari
• Microsoft Fabric Data Science: Upcoming Features You Can’t Miss in 2025 by @Sahir_Maharaj
• Unlocking the Power of Fabric Data Pipelines: A Guide for Power BI by @pchristinami
• Easily recreate your ADX dashboards as Real-Time Dashboards in Fabric by @MichalBar
• Extracting the schema of an existing SQL database in Fabric to perform CI/CD by @KevinChant
• Navigating the (new) DP-600 exam: Part 1 - Maintaining Data Analytics solutions by @rsaprano

Blogs from the Fabric team 

• Automating Real-Time Intelligence Eventstream deployment using PowerShell
• Announcing the winners of the Microsoft Fabric and AI Learning Hackathon!
• Eventhouse Monitoring (Preview)
• Bulk Move & Bulk Delete your Queries in Fabric Warehouse
• Introducing Command Palate in Fabric Warehouse & SQL Database Editor

 

Community Spotlight Members

Each month a member of the Fabric community is chosen to be showcased for their exemplary community contributions.  Community Spotlight Members answer questions, provide solutions and share their expert knowledge.  They are valued community members that go above and beyond to support the Fabric community.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meet @danextian, January Spotlight member.

• Super User 
• Community Member since 2016
• 1,000+ Kudos
• 700+ Solutions authored
• 2700+ Replies

 

People are finding solutions

These are the most popular questions about Fabric that got answered in the past month.

• Power BI:  Calculating cumulative total across categories
• Data Engineering:  How to transfer file from SharePoint to Lakehouse files
• Data Warehouse:  Staging area in Fabric
• Data Science:  Error while working with prebuilt open AI services
• Data Factory:  Fabric SQL Database not a supported destination for Fast Copy?
• Real-Time Intelligence:  Adjusting Data Activator Trigger Frequency
• Databases:  Permission denied for CREATE TABLE statement
• Fabric Platform:  Sharepoint Data Source - Service Principal authentication failing - Invalid connection credentials

Popular discussions

These are the trending discussions in the forums.  

• Power BI:  Database refresh date and Power BI refresh date
• Data Engineering:  How to read excel file in a notebook in fabric without using datapipeline
• Data Warehouse:  Fabric Lakehouse SQL Endpoint Automatic Refresh
• Data Science:  Storing Data from a Notebook into a Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
• Data Factory:  Move dataflow to other workspace
• Real-Time Intelligence:  Data Activator Power BI Report Alert Refresh Rate
• Databases:  Creating SQL DB via REST API
• Fabric Platform:  Is there a function to check the workspace name / ID in Fabric notebook?

Trending Data Stories for Power BI 

Visit the Data Stories Gallery for more inspiration and ideas.  

Student Performance Insights Dashboard by @c0936280

Space Mission Analytics by @aniruddhagaikwa

 

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