Figuring Out Fabric: Learn Fabric in 30 minutes.
Episodes
Ep. 24 Fabric Community and Fabric Data Days
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Shannon Lindsay from the Microsoft Community team joins me to talk about, well, community! We talk about her trajectory from non-prof...
Ep. 23. Dealing with Fabric Overwhelm
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Shabnam Watson talks about dealing with Fabric overwhelm and how her bureaucratic experiences with Azure and Synapse motivated her to...
Ep. 22 Making Fabric Feel Like Home
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Microsoft MVP Prathy K talks about her journey into Microsoft Fabric from her MSBI background. She explains how Fabric felt like &quo...
Ep. 21 - Reverse interview, should you switch to Microsoft Fabric?
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Microsoft MVP Angela Henry asks me questions about Microsoft Fabric. We compare the current Fabric development timeline to the old Po...
Ep. 20 - Power BI Accessibility
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Juliana Smith talks about accessibility in Power BI. She talks about starting out as a data scientist and moving to Power BI. We talk...
Ep. 19 - Getting into Microsoft Fabric
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heidi Hastings joins to discuss the practical realities of adopting Microsoft Fabric. We cover her early exposure to Fabric through t...
Ep. 18 - SQL DB on Fabric
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sukhwant Kaur the PM for SQL DBs in Fabric, talks about the new feature. She talks about how management is much easier, which is grea...
Ep. 17 - Fabric Notebooks
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Emilie Rønning about notebooks. We talk about how notebooks can be used for data engineering and when to get started wi...
Ep. 16 - Administering Fabric
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Elayne Jones talks about being an expert reference for the IT Center of Excellence and about administering Fabric. We talk about the ...
Ep. 15 - Fabric or Databricks
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Meagan Longoria talks about Databricks and helps us compare it to Fabric. The general conclusions is Databricks is still the mature t...
Ep. 14 Changing Data Culture
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ewa Hutmacher talks about driving change and changing cultures in a organization. I think it’s fair to say that adjusting to Fabric...
Ep 13. Power BI, Your First Job, and the PL-300
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Evelyn talks about getting certified in the Tableau and Power BI. We talk a little a bit about how each is different. For her, BI was...
Ep. 12 - Power BI, Data Viz, and Solving the Right Problem
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
T. from Data Rocks talks about how data viz is a tiny subset of information design. The key is to focus less on just charts, but more about how the da...
Ep. 11 - Data Science, Career Paths, Learning Fabric
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steph Locke covers a wild career from data science consultant to startup owner to Microsoft manager. We talk about what’s required ...
Ep. 10: Fabric and Instructional Design
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode with Ellen Burns-Johnson, we talk about when we worked on a cloud game for Azure Synapse, ADF, Power BI. A big lesson learned from tha...
Ep. 9 - Fabric in Government
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode Els Van Vessem talks about the challenges of implementing Fabric in the government. In it they talk about doing proof of concepts with...
Ep 8. CI/CD in Fabric
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apologies for the audio; I stupidly forgot to double check my mic this episode.In this episode, Erin Dempster gives us an outside view of fabric focus...
Ep. 7 - Semantic Link and Semantic Link Labs
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Stephanie Bruno talks about semantic link and semantic link labs, which allow you to better manage your Power BI resources with Fabri...
Ep 6. Scouting out Fabric
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Krystina Mishra talks about being an accidental Fabric admin. She talks about the challenges of being part of a centralized IT team t...
Ep. 5 - Realtime Intelligence
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode, Frank Geisler explains Realtime Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric. We learn how RTI is its own thing in Fabric and is not directly bac...
Ep 4. Fabric Lakehouse versus Warehouse
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ginger Grant talks about the differences between warehouse and lakehouses in Fabric. We talk about how Warehouses make more sense if ...
Ep 3. Extracting Data from Legacy Systems
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kellyn Gorman talks about the challenges of getting data out of legacy systems (i.e. relational data bases) into Fabric. She explains...
Ep. 2 Medallion Architecture with Cathrine Wilhelmsen
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cathrine explains how there isn't a single solution for architecting your data lake with Microsoft Fabric. We walk through all the different movi...
Ep 1. Data Movement with Kristyna Ferris
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode, I interview Kristyna Ferris about the different types of data Movement in Microsoft Fabric. Specifically, we talk about gen 2 dataflo...