Greg Beaumont's Data & Analytics Blog
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- Strategic Data Replication Enhances a Single Source of Truth Architecture for Analytics & AI
- Fabric Data Agent for Semantic Model added to our free Fabric Github Repo
- Snowflake, Fabric and Power BI Integration Options
- Video – Fabric Semantic Models add Good Math to AI Agents in Power BI, Azure AI Foundry, and Copilot Studio
- SQL Saturday – Minnesota 2025 Presentation
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Category: Microsoft Fabric
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For the past two years I’ve been working with my colleague Inder Rana to build out a GitHub repo that can be leveraged by Fabric users for training and testing purposes. In the most recent update we have added a new Fabric Data Agent that works with the semantic model using Direct Lake mode. The…
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Back in September I published an article reviewing options for sharing lakehouse format data amongst Fabric, Snowflake, and Databricks. The article can be found by clicking here. This article expands on connectivity options between Snowflake and Fabric / Power BI, covering both traditional SQL endpoint connectivity and new lakehouse integration options. Interoperability between Snowflake and…
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We are currently experiencing a generational surge in AI use cases and transformation. But will AI be able to connect directly to your raw data, perform all the necessary transformations, apply business-friendly names to fields, and add accurate logic to solutions? Does data engineering and architecture still matter? The video embedded at the bottom of…
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For many years, SQL Saturday conferences around the world have provided fantastic educational opportunities for professionals specializing in Microsoft tools such as Fabric, Power BI, and SQL Server. SQL Saturday Minnesota is coming up on September 27, 2025 and I was fortunately selected to be a presenter. I’ll be presenting on best practices for Fabric…
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This post examines strategies to reduce data duplication and enhance performance by enabling shared access to data at rest across Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. These platforms are widely adopted in modern data ecosystems and each offers lakehouse capabilities that decouple compute from storage. In environments where multiple platforms coexist, sharing storage while orchestrating compute…
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I have been collaborating with my colleague Inder Rana on a GitHub repository for an end-to-end Microsoft Fabric solution for some time, as it provides a simple means to learn about Fabric with real open source healthcare data. This most recent update enables non-technical people who have never used Fabric with a means to install…
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I’ve been sharing insights on data technologies through blogs, videos, and podcasts for over 15 years. Over time, my content has been published across a variety of platforms, some of which have since become outdated or difficult to access. To make things simpler, I’ve created this new blog as a centralized hub where you can…
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Query Fabric Data Agents from Azure AI Foundry for Agentic Solutions One of the early criticisms of Large Language Models (LLMs) was an inability to do good math when answering questions. Newer LLMs can do great reasoning and mathematical tasks, but at a high compute cost and the query times can be slow. Microsoft Fabric…
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Are you tired of watching Fabric demos where you can’t use the tools hands-on and push them to the limits? Would you like to test out Microsoft Fabric with 250 million rows of real data? Maybe you need a solid demo or you have a real Healthcare use case for 10 years of #OpenData CMS…
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Interested in trying out the new Microsoft Fabric AI Skill? Fabric AI Skill is a new Generative AI capability in preview for Fabric that functions as the basis for a SaaS AI Agent in Fabric using natural language to query your data. An AI Skill module has been added to the GitHub repo created along…