Deploying from Dev to Prod

[Anthony_A]

Hi All,

I am new to fabric. I've been using my Dev environment for the last few months. I recently created a prod workspace and deployed my LH and WH. I noticed none of the tables or schemas went over. Is that normal? 

Is there a way to push all of the tables/ data into the WHs in prod? 

Furthermore, is there documentation you recommend outside of the MS docs on deployment PLs? 

[v-veshwara-msft]

Hi @Anthony_A ,

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[v-veshwara-msft]

Hi @Anthony_A ,

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Otherwise, feel free to reach out for further assistance.

Thank you.

[v-veshwara-msft]

Hi @Anthony_A ,

Thank you for engaging with the Microsoft Fabric Community.

Just following up to check if your query has been resolved and whether the responses from @nilendraFabric  and @lbendlin were helpful. If so, please consider marking the helpful replies as Accepted Solutions to assist others with similar queries. If further assistance is needed, please reach out.
Thank you.

[Anthony_A]

Hi Ibendlin & Nilendra,

Thank you! Much appreciated! 

The notebook will transfer the existing tables and data? 

I was afraid i would have to reload everything again. 

Thanks, 

AA

[lbendlin]

The notebook will transfer the existing tables and data?

if you tell it to do that, yes.

I was afraid i would have to reload everything again. 

That fear is justified. You will have to reload everything again.

[nilendraFabric · Accepted solution]

As @lbendlin mentioned deployment pipelines in Fabric are designed; they move content definitions, code, and metadata rather than the actual data or the underlying physical table structures

They copy items like reports, notebooks, and other code artifacts while preserving their connections and configurations

create notebook, data pipeline etc to move and create actual data

good read

https://www.kevinrchant.com/2024/11/06/fabricators-guide-to-microsoft-fabric-deployment-pipelines

[lbendlin]

That is normal.  Whatever doesn't get committed to Version control is also not getting deployed.  You should have notebooks dedicated to the setups in each of the deployment pipeline's workspaces.