// Copilot in Fabric

The Microsoft Copilot service is now in preview in Microsoft Fabric (as of March 2024). This post is a run down of the different experiences, what to expect of the services and how to work with them. Enable Copilot in Fabric If you are living outside the USA or France, you need to manually enable the Copilot service in the Fabric tenant. To do this, you go to the tenant settings of youor Fabric service annd find the “Copilot annd Azure OpenAI service (preview)” setting. [...]

// Fabric Constraints for the Lazy Coder

When working with data and building data models, I personally seldom use the constraints feature on a database. Call me lazy - but I think constraints are adding unnessesary complexity when building data models for reporting. Especially if you are working with the some of new platforms - like Microsoft Fabric, where you are using staleless compute, aka. data storage is seperated from the compute layer. I understand the need for contraints on other database systems like OLTP systems. [...]

// KQL Data live copy to OneLake

Use your KQL data everywhere in Fabric Microsoft has released the final piece of the current puzzle around the OneLake as a one-stop-shopping service for dat in Fabric. Until now we had only access to the KQL data in the KQL database. With this addition, we can now finally say that OneLake is the one place for your data in Fabric. How to set it up You can set this new featire up at two levels in your KQL database - either on database level or table level. [...]

// Event Hub to Eventstream

The Fabric servive Eventstream can read data from an Event Hub service to help collect data from IoT devices and other streaming services. But how do you configure the Event Hub and Eventstream to work together? I’ll try to help with that in this blogpost. Start and configure the Event Hub First of all we need an Event Hub in Azure. The process is quite easy. Choose to create a new service and search for the Event Hub service. [...]