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How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database deployments, you've probably already run into its limits. It's still very much in its infancy. The moment you change a column's length, drop a column, or remove a table that already contains data, the deployment fails — Fabric throws up a safety precaution and refuses to proceed. That's a reasonable default, but it stops real schema changes in their tracks. There could be ways around it — third-party tools
5 days ago6 min read


Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 4
After several discussions with the Microsoft team and chatting with Sunil Sabat about the testing I was conducting, the conclusion was...
Jan 3, 20241 min read


Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 3
Sorry to disappoint you. In this post, we won't test Microsoft Fabric directly. We will compare Azure Data Factory (ADF) to Microsoft...
Nov 30, 20232 min read


Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 2
To quickly summarize where we are, we started testing Microsoft Fabric with a 10GB tar file, which took over 20 hours to extract, and now...
Nov 24, 20232 min read


Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 1
Shortly after Microsoft Fabric came out a few months ago, I created an account and started playing around. I love to push technology to...
Nov 14, 20232 min read
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