Introduction to end-to-end analytics using Microsoft Fabric

Discover how Microsoft Fabric can meet your enterprise's analytics needs in one platform. Learn about Microsoft Fabric, how it works, and identify how you can use it for your analytics needs.

Lessons

• Explore end-to-end analytics with Microsoft Fabric
• Data teams and Microsoft Fabric
• Enable and use Microsoft Fabric

Get started with lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric

Lakehouses merge data lake storage flexibility with data warehouse analytics. Microsoft Fabric offers a lakehouse solution for comprehensive analytics on a single SaaS platform.

Lessons

• Explore the Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse
• Work with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses
• Explore and transform data in a lakehouse

Exercise

• Create and ingest data with a Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse

Use Apache Spark in Microsoft Fabric

Apache Spark is a core technology for large-scale data analytics. Microsoft Fabric provides support for Spark clusters, enabling you to analyze and process data in a Lakehouse at scale.

Lessons

• Prepare to use Apache Spark
• Run Spark code
• Work with data in a Spark dataframe
• Work with data using Spark SQL
• Visualize data in a Spark notebook

Exercise

• Analyze data with Apache Spark

Work with Delta Lake tables in Microsoft Fabric

Tables in a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse are based on the Delta Lake storage format commonly used in Apache Spark. By using the enhanced capabilities of delta tables, you can create advanced analytics solutions.

Lessons

• Understand Delta Lake
• Create delta tables
• Work with delta tables in Spark
• Use delta tables with streaming data

Exercise

• Use delta tables in Apache Spark

Ingest Data with Dataflows Gen2 in Microsoft Fabric

Data ingestion is crucial in analytics. Microsoft Fabric's Data Factory offers Dataflows (Gen2) for visually creating multi-step data ingestion and transformation using Power Query Online.

Lessons

• Understand Dataflows (Gen2) in Microsoft Fabric
• Explore Dataflows (Gen2) in Microsoft Fabric
• Integrate Dataflows (Gen2) and Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric

Exercise

• Create and use a Dataflow (Gen2) in Microsoft Fabric

Use Data Factory pipelines in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric includes Data Factory capabilities, including the ability to create pipelines that orchestrate data ingestion and transformation tasks.

Lessons

• Understand pipelines
• Use the Copy Data activity
• Use pipeline templates
• Run and monitor pipelines

Exercise

• Ingest data with a pipeline