Fabric Community Update - October 2024

Fabric Community Update - October 2024

 

Mark your calendar for next year's European Fabric Community Conference to be held in Vienna, Austria from September 15 - 18, 2025. Register your interest for 2025!

 

Fabric announcements at European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 

 

We had an incredible time in our host city of Stockholm for FabCon Europe! 3,300 attendees joined us from our international community, and it was wonderful to meet so many of you in person.

 

Learn about Arun's impactful keynote on Building an AI-powered data platform and read the Fabric Community Conference Europe Recap Blog to find out more.  Explore the curated list of Fabric blog posts and announcments covering new data, analytics and BI solutions. 

 

Microsoft Ignite

Be part of  Microsoft Ignite on November 19 - 21, 2024 from anywhere on the globe, accessing free live-stream keynotes and sessions and jumping into on-demand content.  Register for your digital pass today.

 

A new Fabric certification for data engineers

 

 

We are excited to announce a brand-new certification for data engineers coming in late October. The new Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification will help you demonstrate your skills with data ingestion, transformation, administration, monitoring, and performance optimization in Fabric. 

 

Fabric Community - Data Factory Forums

We added 2 new Data Factory forums to better align the community and product experiences.  Visit the Apache Airflow Job forum or Mirroring forum, in addition to the Dataflow forum and Data Pipeline forum to ask your Data Factory questions to the right community audience.  

 

Popular blogs

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

 

• Regression Analysis in Power BI by @aysegulyigit
• Power BI Reporting Best Practices Analyzer by @hackcrr
• [PowerQuery] Transform column with custom condition by @ibarrau

Blogs from the Fabric team 

• European Fabric Community Conference 2024:  Building an AI-powered data platform
• Fabric September 2024 Monthly Update
• Power BI Monthly September 2024 Feature Summary
• Fabric Community Conference Europe Recap
• Fabric Influencers Spotlight September 2024
• Recap of Data Factory Announcements at Fabric Community Conference Europe 

 

Community Spotlight Member

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 @DoherDrizzle in the Fabric Community.

As an MVP and User Group Leader on the Community, she has worked diligently on user group events, in particular, Techbayanihan 2024 which was held in the Phillippines on August 2 - 3, 2024.  She would like to mention her co-leader Anthony for his hard work on this event.  In addition to hosting user group events, she is continually networking with industry leaders and peers, Microsoft clients, partners, employees, and tech enthusiasts in the Phillippines.  

 

People are finding solutions

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

• Power BI:  Databricks ODBC driver error
• Synapse:  View Files in Fabric Warehouse table
• Data Factory:  SQL endpoint sync issues
• Real-Time Intelligence:  Null values in flattened JSON

Popular discussions

These are the trending discussions in the forums.  

• Power BI: changing number of decimal places on query editor
• Synapse:  Fabric Warehouse vs. Lakehouse
• Data Factory: notebook parameter
• Real-Time Intelligence:  How to convert string into double in KQL db

 

Trending Data Stories for Power BI 

Visit the Data Stories Gallery for more inspiration and ideas.  

 

Workout Wednesday for Power BI 2024 Week 37 by @Meagan

Sales and Profit Analysis by @VinodKumarpothu

 

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