Fabric artifacts
Fabric is a new capacity type for Power BI. If you want, you can run the same Power BI semantic models, dataflows, and reports in a Fabric capacity as you run in a Premium capacity. So, what’s the difference? The difference is Fabric is adding analytics, data warehousing, and streaming resources to the capacity.
What are these additional resources? Here is a list as of the printing of this book:
- OneLake: Microsoft has made a point with Fabric that storage is in one place and one structure. The storage is built behind the scenes on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, which is Microsoft’s answer to big data. This also separates the processing of compute from data storage. All organizational data is stored in one unified location. Additionally, shortcuts can be created for other data sources to be used in OneLake without having to copy the data.
- Lakehouse or warehouse: The containers of data and code can be one of two types, or both can be used...