Moving to Microsoft Fabric? Here's 36 questions to guide your decisions

Download the free 9-page guidance doc: www.skool.com/microsoft-fabri...
This video walks through the document (linked above): Guidance for designing end-to-end data solutions for your organization in Microsoft Fabric.
Microsoft Fabric can be configured in many different ways. Plus, every organization is different. So in this video, I provide 36 questions to help you make solid architectural decisions when you are moving to Microsoft Fabric.
This covers:
1. Structuring your Fabric tenant (capacities, workspaces and access control)
2. Getting data into Fabric (data pipelines, notebooks, dataflows, shortcuts, database mirroring)
3. Storing data in Fabric (Lakehouse, data warehouse or KQL database)
4. Building Power BI semantic models in Fabric (Import, Direct Query or Direct Lake mode)
5. Validating your data and semantic models
This video is the penultimate video in the Power BI to Microsoft Fabric transition guide series: • Power BI to Fabric Tra...
Timeline
0:00 Intro
1:53 Purpose of the document
2:38 Download the document
3:05 Structure of the document
3:35 Structuring your Fabric tenant
10:18 Getting data into Fabric
13:55 Choosing a data store
19:45 Building semantic models
22:08 Validating data and semantic models
24:52 Final thoughts and next steps
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[@mooreresources8752]

Great informative series. Keep up the posting. Also, I especially appreciate your diction of English which varies widely in technology videos within CZcams.

[@alexrook5604]

This is fantastic content. Thank you so much for taking the time.

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Thanks for watching Alex 🙌 glad you're enjoying

[@Eklandasy]

Great video. I would say your series is the best Fabric tutorial available in CZcams. Keep up the good work!

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Thanks for watching and for the feedback :)

[@szymonkurowski3427]

great content, thank you so much!

[@vibhatt2512]

Amazing work!! Thanks, Will for the document.

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

No problem, hope it's useful 👍

[@SantoshPothnak]

One of the best videos giving clarity for all the organizations to start questioning and getting clarity on their business and their architecture and then jump on implementation. Really appreciate will for this wonderful video and the detailed document!!

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Thanks!! I hope you and others find it useful 😊😊

[@kevindoherty8788]

This guy is amazing. So much valuable information in his videos. So generous. Thank you.

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

😂 thanks for your kind words, it appreciate it. glad you're finding them valuable 🙌

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Thank you all for watching! If you found the video helpful, please do me a little favour and like the video 👍It helps me to gauge what type of videos you like! Thanks everyone! 🙏 PLUS you can download the document for free from here: www.skool.com/microsoft-fabric/classroom/c75b239c?md=2344f9f2685f42269878a54541fd59d3

[@ganeshv1344]

Very helpful video... Is it possible to alter a table in fabric to add/change/drop a column??

[@quynguyen6429]

This goes to the course for me, not a way to download the doc. Is there a direct link to download the doc?

[@rameshpaskarathas6512]

Great explanations of decision points and criteria.

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Thanks for watching!!

[@pmannion44]

This is amazing. Thanks for all you do Will 🙏🏻

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Cheers Patrick, thanks for watching!!

[@azwarmzafar]

Wordless for your efforts, please keep it up. Thanks.

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Thanks! Hopefully some people find it useful, thanks for watching! 🙌👍

[@carlnascnyc]

amazing video, thanks for sharing!!

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Thanks for watching!!

[@MarusykRoman]

@@LearnMicrosoftFabric thank you very much. could you pls advice how to work with batching in terms of managing updates/deletions in the source database

[@muteeullahbaig4685]

Bro providing free Consultation Services to the Fabric Community❤

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Thanks for watching!!

[@desiretra1532]

Thanks so much! Coul you please share some tips for New data analysts ?

[@DagGoneBoomer]

Excellent.... thank you.

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

no worries, thanks for watching!

[@junpei0berkeley]

Thank you, i am about finish all your videos !! btw, please grant me access to skool

[@eivindhaugen8640]

Great overview. Currently I try to get my head around the need for using incremental loading as a best practice, when shortcuts and mirroring is not an option. Any guidance on the data volume where it will be a good benefit compared to the extra engineering? Assume it will be simplified with DF Gen 2 released.

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Hey Eivind! Not sure what you mean by the extra engineering? DO you mean coding the incremental loading yourself?

[@abdulmaleekmubaraq]

Nice video

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Thanks man!

[@sehcheongng9212]

Hi Will, amazing video! I have a slightly unrelated question, I am thinking to use MS tool for Data catalog and governance, the azure service that I found is Purview and I saw there is an purview integration in Fabric but I'm not sure if it has all the features, do you have any idea? Thanks!

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

I haven't done much testing of the Purview integration, yet, so can't really comment

[@sehcheongng9212]

I see, how about data governance with Fabric?

[@shamsv4379]

Thanks for awesome videos. I am bit wondering about the necessity of Databricks if one were to purchase Fabric, considering Fabric seems to cover all the functionalities that Databricks offers. It's confusing, especially since Microsoft promotes Databricks as a primary choice in Azure.
Fabric is easy to easy , low code no code and even business users will be able to to data engineering. If we opt for Databricks, would Power BI suffice as a visualization tool? However, using Databricks requires technical expertise, adding another layer of complexity.

[@LearnMicrosoftFabric]

Hey there, yes Power BI can be used as your viz tool 👍