Paul Andrew

Hype vs reality, the constant struggle! Can you help please? We want to hear from you as part of a survey myself & the @cloudformations.bsky.social team are trying to capture the collective wisdom of this community.

Only 5mins, prizes available too! Thanks for your support. 😊

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Getting Microsoft Fabric into Production - Stories from the Field + Q&A Webinar - Free to attend knowledge sharing.Join Cloud Formations and industry peers for a practical, story-driven session on what it really takes to move Microsoft Fabric analytics solutions into prod...

Webinar Alert: I'll be hosting and presenting next month at a webinar on what we've called 'Fabric in Production - Stories From the Field'. We're built several #MicrosoftFabric solutions now for our customers and keen to share knowledge.

www.cloudformations.org/post/getting...

13th August 25 | East Midlands Data | **ONLINE** | Speaker - Kevin Chant, Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup **___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:15 – Join Teams Meeting. Networking 18:30 – Guest Speaker Tal

This Wednesday evening, join me ONLINE at 6:15pm, for a story about #MicrosoftFabric and #GitHub from felllow data platform MVP @kevchant.bsky.social speaking at the #EastMidlandsData #MeetUp.

Hope to see you there (on Teams)!

#DevOps & #KevOps 😉

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11th June 25 | East Midlands Data | ONLINE | Speaker - Wolfgang Strasser , Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup **___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:00 - Online Chat & Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:3

LIVE NOW, join me ONLINE the #EastMidlandsData #MeetUp with special guest @wstrasser.bsky.social talking to us about data governance, as requested by our attendees. 🙂

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From ProcFwk to CF.Cumulus: A Story of Metadata, Momentum, and Meaning From ProcFwk to CF.Cumulus: A Story of Metadata, Momentum, and Meaning

Blogged: From #ProcFwk to #CF.Cumulus: A Story of Metadata, Momentum, and Meaning with @cloudformations.bsky.social

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14th May 25 | East Midlands Data | Nottingham | Speaker - Matt Collins, Wed, May 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup **___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:00 - Arrive. Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:30 - Pi

Join me in #Nottingham this Wednesday evening for the East Midlands Data #MeetUp.

Special guest Matt Collins will be talking about how to 'Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework'

Plus, I have a box of #Microsoft swag to give away!! 😉

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I a-Grigio with the Pinot of view!

Thanks #Microsoft @microsoft.com for moving the Edge browser profile switching from the top left to the top right! Why??
~5 years of muscle memory! Sigh 🤬

So, just killed a customers Fabric F64 capacity with a nested pipeline ForEach, only 100 concurrent copy activities. #MicrosoftFabric sigh!

Happy chocolate egg weekend friends! 🙂

🍫🍫🍫😬🤢

Updates pushed.

github.com/CloudFormati...

That reminds me I need to push an updated version. Will do it next week 🙂

The journey to the #MVPSummit begins… arriving in Seattle around 2am tomorrow morning. Yay! 😴

🚗🚄🚇🛫🛬🚕

And you get to ‘drop the mic’ after 😆

Refreshing hidden tables in Power BI semantic models with Fabric Data Pipelines Use an expression to define which tables and partitions to refresh

Refreshing hidden tables in #PowerBI semantic models with Fabric Data Pipelines blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/03/09/r...

Getting ready for the #DataWeekender 🙂
See you at 10:20am GMT
www.dataweekender.com/schedule

Our third Fabric session at DataWeekender 7.0 is @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social presenting Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework at 10:20am UTC on Sat 1st March.

Register: https://bit.ly/4b9SsnB. View the schedule: https://bit.ly/46TCJ9i.

#MicrosoftFabric

Its coming 😉

Thanks!

But is it? Or is it just highlighting the immaturity of a product that has been GA for a while now! Yet we still have this level of delivery friction.

#MicrosoftFabric

Dynamically Getting a Microsoft Fabric Item ID Dynamically getting a Microsoft Fabric item ID at runtime hitting the Fabric API using an Azure Data Factory pipeline

Blogged: Dynamically Getting a #MicrosoftFabric Item ID - Problem & Solution (Hack!)

Not sure this should be this difficult. But I lost a day to messing about with the Fabric API so wanted to make sure you don't fall into the same rabbit holes! 😘

www.cloudformations.org/post/dynamic...

12th Feb 25| East Midlands Data | Derby | Speaker - Kamil Nowinski, Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup **___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:00 - Arrive. Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:30 - Bu

This Wednesday, join us in #Derby for the monthly #EastMidlandsData #MeetUp

Special guest @azureplayer.bsky.social will be talking to us about #MicrosoftFabric SQL Databases.

www.meetup.com/eastmidlands...

Was a great day. Thanks for hosting us and thanks to the audience for being so engaged 🙂
#MicrosoftFabric

Having a fantastic time with the fabulous @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social and @laura-gb.bsky.social in their session: A Data Engineer’s Guide to Platform Governance in Microsoft Fabric—Capacities, Workspaces, Domains, DevOps, and more! 💚

#FabricFebruary #MicrosoftFabric

kermit the frog is screaming in front of a red curtain with the words screams in muppet written above him . ALT: kermit the frog is screaming in front of a red curtain with the words screams in muppet written above him .

And it is official: WE HAVE SOLD OUT OUR TRAINING DAYS! 🔥💚

Don't miss out on the MAINCON day: www.fabricfebruary.com

@guyinacube.bsky.social, @brianbonk.bsky.social, Devang, @jaypowerbi.bsky.social, @marclelijveld.bsky.social, @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social, Laura - you are crazy popular 😎

Did look at it, but it conflicts with an industry event we are planning to sponsor. ☹️

Sessions all submitted @sqlbits.bsky.social, hope to see you in soon 😘

8th Jan 25 | East Midlands Data | Nottingham | Speaker - Andy Cutler, Wed, Jan 8, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup **___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:00 - Arrive. Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:30 - Pi

Join us tomorrow as we host the excellent @andycutler.bsky.social at the East Midlands Data #MeetUp.

The Reality of #MicrosoftFabric Data Warehouses and Deploying Models using #DBT

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Thanks Santa (wife) 🙂🤓 #starwars

What all the peoples said 😘