Microsoft Data Platform News 2024 - Week 51

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Fabric

• Python in Microsoft Fabric: Data Factory vs Polars and DuckDB
• Re-using visual formatting in and across Power BI reports
• Staying Updated with IntelliSense in Fabric Warehouse

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Python in Microsoft Fabric: Data Factory vs Polars and DuckDB

Microsoft recently added a feature where you can run Python scripts directly in notebooks — no Spark cluster needed! Instead, the code runs on a lightweight, single-node machine.

https://medium.com/@mariusz_kujawski/python-in-microsoft-fabric-data-factory-vs-polars-and-duckdb-06dc4383475b

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Re-using visual formatting in and across Power BI reports

Formatting Power BI visuals can cost a lot of time, especially when you put special effort into creating an elegant and useful design (remember: the key word is useful and not elegant). To lower this time expenditure, you should centralize styles in a Power BI theme and centralize formatting logic in DAX measures.

https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/re-using-visual-formatting-in-and-across-power-bi-reports/

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Staying Updated with IntelliSense in Fabric Warehouse

We’ve added in functionality to IntelliSense in Fabric. will enable developers to write queries efficiently using the new or updated T-SQL statements in Fabric Data Warehouse.

https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/staying-updated-with-intellisense-in-fabric-warehouse/

Luká? Karlovsky

FABRIC | Power BI | Power Query | SQL | PySpark | Data | DWH | Excel | VBA | Instructor

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