Learning Microsoft Fabric: A Data Analytics and Engineering Preview

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Fabric at the spring 2023 Build conference, he called it the most significant announcement for business data users since the launch of the first version of SQL Server. But what is Fabric? How does it work, and what does it do that will help you? In this course, Microsoft expert Gini von Courter and data analytics expert Helen Wall give you a first look at how Fabric will help your business and data initiatives. Get an overview of the current issues that Fabric was designed to solve, the components that make it up, and how to enable Fabric. Learn how to build a workspace and a lakehouse in Fabric. Find out how to create dataflows and load your dataflow to the Fabric model. Go over creating notebooks, uploading data to them, and using them to build visuals and AI models. Use Datamarts to connect multidimensional models, build pipelines to account for international holidays, and much more. Plus, explore ways to generate a Power BI report using a Fabric data lakehouse.