Data Governance

Arcthitecture best practices in Fabric that enables your data governance journey

This post delves into the architectural considerations for Microsoft Fabric, a low-code platform for data integration and AI. It explores various architectural options like item and workspace separation, domain organization, and capacity management, offering insights into their pros and cons to guide readers in designing a robust and scalable Fabric environment. The author emphasizes the…

Data Governance

How to set up FUAM – Fabric Unified Admin Monitoring

FUAM is a solution to enable a holistic monitoring on top of Microsoft Fabric built completely with Fabric capabilities, extracting data on (and giving you insights on): Tenant Settings Delegated Tenant Settings Activities Workspaces Capacities Capacity Metrics Tenant metadata (Scanner API) Capacity Refreshables Git Connections

You can get an overview or a deep dive into…

Data Governance

Start Your Data Governance Journey with the new Microsoft Purview: A Step-by-step guide

Microsoft Purview has evolved from a Data Catalog into a comprehensive data governance tool, incorporating features like data security and quality monitoring. This video step by step guide on how to start using Purview for data governance. Topics include upgrading Purview, registering Fabric data, creating data products and governance domains and setting up data quality.

Data Governance

Is Data Mesh your enabler, or is it just creating a data mess?

Coming from the world of Microsoft analytics, I got curious as to why Microsoft chose to go with “Fabric” as the name of the newly released analytical solution, Microsoft Fabric. Looking into this, the architectural concept of Data Fabric became more relevant. I had been working with Data Mesh for a while, but the Fabric…

Data Governance

How do you set up your Data Governance in Microsoft Fabric?

Microsoft Fabric simplifies governance and administration with its new capabilities such as Domains, Roles in Fabric, and Access Management. It supports a data mesh architecture, offering enhanced permissions and security levels through features like Column-Level & Row-Level Security. It also enables Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, and Endorsement. Meanwhile, Fabric provides Data Lineage and Metadata…

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What is OneLake in Microsoft Fabric?

OneLake in Fabric is a Data Lake as a Service solution that provides one data lake for your entire organization, and one copy of data that multiple analytical engines can process. Microsoft Fabric, introduced at Build on May 23, includes the revolutionary OneLake feature. OneLake acts as a unified Data Lake as a Service solution.…

Marthe's Corner

I am speaking at SQLBits + Interview with WIT

So exited to share that I will be speaking at #SQLBits! I will present two sessions: ⭐ Power BI Datamarts – What, How and Why?A 20 min lightning sessions where we will demo the main features of Power BI Datamarts and see if we can conclude on when it is a good idea to take…

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Advice from the Women In Tech

I was lucky enough to speak at the Pass Data Community Summit 2022 in Seattle last week. This is the world’s largest data conference, with many great sessions to join and speakers to learn from. On Thursday was the #WomenInTech lunch, where a panel of amazing women sat down to discuss some of the challenges of…

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PASS Data Community Summit 2022 in Seattle!

I am writing this post as I am heading back to Norway and should be sleeping on the plane to walk off the plane in perfect sync with CET. So much for that plan. Posting it a bit later though. I want to share my experience with the PASS Data Community Summit from the previous…

Marthe's Corner

Welcome to my blog!

I am so excited to share this blog with you! Must admit setting up this blog was not the easiest thing to do. Not because I found it technically difficult, but because I had a hard time convincing myself that my thoughts on the big domain of data could be valuable to someone else. For…