Sad that my country left the EU last night but super excited to have joined a new family today - the group of the most hard-working, selfless individuals I have ever known - the Microsoft #MVPs! Thank you @LonBizAnalytics (Mark w) @AmyKateNicho for the nominations! #mvpbuzz

Dear #WhiskySanta, please may you put Don Amado Mezcal Rústico from @MasterofMalt under my tree? I've been really good this year!

Materialised views coming to MS Fabric notebooks complete with automated data quality rules!

Another challenge I hear from customers in fabric has been that there are too many ways to do the same thing which results in inconsistency. Announcing user defined data functions in fabric notebooks (which can be called via external APIs) to re-use code snippets!

A copilot powered tool to migrate from azure synapse dedicated pools into a fabric data warehouse!!

Whilst Power BI users love the developer features of fabric for enterprise reporting, for the data engineers used to Azure the criticism has always been that it doesn't go far enough - it needs dynamic CI/CD, SPN support and a command line interface!!

This is insane!!! When you need to hire a 20,000 seater sports stadium in Las Vegas for a product keynote you know you're onto something:-) Great to see @GuyInACube interviewing fans too - there's some fellow former accountants in the room!

It's #PBIMCR time! First up we have @jamesdales talking all things Icon Map Pro #PBIMCR #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #pbi #community #usergroup #meetup #manchester

At least @RishiSunak gets it - what other politician could host a 1:1 tech discussion with @elonmusk about the future of AI? - https://t.co/bXMkRpF87I This and a background in finance and as chancellor in the toughest economic times ever makes him the right person to lead

With the UK going to the polls tomorrow there’s really very little in any manifesto that’s going to move the needle (Which has done a good summary- https://t.co/KHrDcblWpz)..where’s the government that’s going to prioritise adult education in tech/AI so we become competitive?

1. @FTC has taken action against Adobe and two executives for pushing people into subscriptions and then making it absurdly hard to cancel. Adobe ambushed users with hefty "early termination fees" and threw up obstacles when people tried to cancel. https://t.co/lyWAv4GMm1

So excited! Icon Map Pro for #PowerBI is now available on AppSource! Check out the new website to explore all its capabilities: https://t.co/IXakpXC6wH #GIS #MicrosoftFabric #Maps #GeospatialAnalytics

In my session at #fabcon this afternoon I’ll talk about “Analytics in the era of Gen AI”. The announcement of copilot for data warehouse and bringing PBI copilot into the desktop experience (including explaining existing dax queries and even general concepts!) is a key enabler!

The announcement at #fabcon of Metric sets - a new layer in #microsoftfabric that allows for the creation of re-usable measures (with corresponding dimensions) means that organisations can have logic centralised and catalogued so they can build enterprise level data products!

There’s over 100 million import models in Power BI today! How do we move them to become lakehouse backed with the data in OneLake so we can analyse it with other workloads? Announcing automatic OneLake integration for import semantic models at #fabcon

With all the focus on data engineering and modelling with #microsoftfabric you could be forgiven for thinking the visualisation side of Power BI has been forgotten - but nope! There’s even a new visualisation type - 100% stacked area chart-announced today at #fabcon!

#microsoftfabric makes the traditional #etl process - going from transactional to analytical data products-much easier. But what if you could do away with extraction altogether? Mirroring - near real time DB replication - is now launched in private preview as announced at #fabcon

At @Avanade we’ve been talking about the better together story between #databricks and #microsoftfabric ever since launch! Announcement at #fabcon: Databricks catalog item type in Fabric which connects live into Unity Catalog so you can put any tool (including Power BI) on top!

The notebook experience in #microsoftfabric is also evolving! Support for T-SQL directly (not just SparkSQL!), ability to debug code directly within the notebook and auto tuning!

Governance and security needs to be an integral component of any data platform and has to be carefully balanced with ease of use/time to insights. #microsoftfabric strikes that balance perfectly with having Onelake as THE single place to manage permissions and access control