Hi all, just to let you know, if you sign up for and complete the AI Skills Challenge: Fabric Analytics Engineer you get to take the DP-600 exam for free (normally $165)! Make sure you sign up in the next four days (when the challenge begins), then you have one month to complete the challenge. Then you have to book and take the exam before June 24th I believe (but check the Terms and Conditions yourself). Who's going to take the challenge?

After a few workshop days (24th and 25th), tomorrow, the first ever Fabric Conference will be held in Las Vegas. I'm expecting lots of new announcements to be made across the whole product suite, so it should be an exciting week! I'll do my best to let you know about the announcements as they are made! Is anyone here attending the event? If you're not attending let me know what features you like to see announced 🙌🙌🎉🎉 Ps. photo is courtesy of Kim Manis, VP of Product at Microsoft (from here)

Have you got a particular issue in Fabric that you can't solve and want a second opinion on? Or maybe you're considering a career change into Fabric/ data science/ data engineering and want some advice? Well the good news is that next Monday 11th March, we'll be hosting our second Fabric Q&A session, so feel free to drop any questions as a comment below!! Looking forward to chatting with you all again!! The session will be recorded. Previous recordings are available here

Where does Azure Databricks fit now? Can Databricks write to the same Parquet format as other Fabric components?

I just joined from the YouTube summary video. I've been studying Fabric for 6 months and it is the best presentation. My interest is now to automation creation of the various resources, using Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell, Shell scripts, K6 javascript keyboard macros, etc. so that we can rebuild the whole setup quickly after a breach or disaster. I welcome any ideas and collaboration. https://linkedin.com/in/wilsonmar