Getting started with Microsoft Fabric

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Fiodar Sazanavets

Senior Software Engineer

Meet the instructor

Fiodar Sazanavets

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) logo

  • Senior Software Engineer
  • Ex-Microsoft engineer
  • Microsoft MVP
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Course goals

  • No prior experience with Microsoft Fabric needed
  • What Fabric is, what it's used for, and who uses it
  • How Fabric is organized: workspaces, items, and workloads
  • Managing and governing data in Fabric
  • Analyzing big data and real-time data

Microsoft Fabric workloads above a platform layer of Copilot, OneLake, and governance

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Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

What is Fabric?

  • Microsoft Fabric is a unified SaaS analytics platform
  • SaaS stands for software as a service
  • Cloud environment where teams can collaborate
  • One platform for several workloads

Fabric shown as one cloud SaaS platform linking engineering, warehouse, science, real-time, and reporting

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

What problems Fabric solves

Website analytics, sales, email campaign, inventory, and financial data all feeding into one retail sales question

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Building blocks of Fabric

  • Workspace: collaboration area
  • Fabric item: tool in workspace
    • Lakehouses and warehouses: store data
    • Notebooks: explore and transform data
    • Pipelines: move data and automate workflows

Fabric workspace for team collaboration holding items such as Lakehouse, Warehouse, Notebook, Pipeline, and Report

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

How Fabric components relate to each other

Building analogy: OneLake is the building, a workspace is a room, and Fabric items are the furniture inside it

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Getting started with a Fabric workspace

Empty Fabric workspace with New item, New folder, Import, and Workspace settings buttons

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Selecting an item to create

Fabric Create page listing Data Engineering items such as Lakehouse, Notebook, and Spark Job Definition

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Let's practice!

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

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