hello all , how can i connect my on premises data gateway (on fabric) to azure vpn to secure it more?

Hello All, I am trying to convert the existing functions on oracle, to T-SQL to use them in Fabric Data Warehouse. Is there a simpler and faster way to do this? Thank you in advance for your help.

Hey everyone, for those of you who are asking about the Fabric Free Trial (see this previous thread), I just received the following update from Microsoft: "To answer your questions, we have stopped supporting Fabric trial capacities on newly created Entra and M365 tenants, which many users previously set up for testing and learning. Unfortunately, the ease of creating these tenants for trial capacities led to usage patterns that we cannot continue to support, so we are unable to provide trials for this class of tenant. We recommend initiating Fabric trial capacities on tenants associated with your work or school organization—rather than spinning up new tenants. Trial capacities remain available on established tenants that demonstrate multi-product usage of Microsoft services." So I believe the methods you can take now are either: 1) If you work for a company that uses Fabric - use your company's tenant 2) If not, or you don't want to use your company tenant, purchase an F2 (or higher) for practicing/learning, and pause/ resume as and when you need it. For reference, an F2 is ~ $0.35 per hour. Thoughts?

As a solution architect with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, I would like to move into the Fabric area. However, it is not as practical at my stage to pursue certifications one by one, compared to when I was younger. I would like to raise a discussion about managing a career path focused on Microsoft products (Fabric, and Copilot, M365, D365, etc.) without necessarily pursuing certifications. What are the most effective paths to move forward in developing expertise and advancing in this direction?

My company is transitioning to Fabric from Azure synapse. Currently, our data team is debating about using Pyspark notebook or SQL Stored procs for our transformation of data. Our ultimate goal is to be platform agnostic and be more future proof. Meaning in the event that we would like to switch to other data platforms lng AWS or GCP or even snowflake, the transition would be much easier like a lift and shift migration. What would you recommend?