Introducing Microsoft Fabric and Data Factory
Microsoft unveiled its unified business analytics platform Fabric in Spring 2023. Fabric combines the capabilities of Power BI, Azure Synapse, and ADF in one integrated environment.
In this recipe, our goal is to get acquainted with the Microsoft Fabric environment, where we will create the infrastructure and data store necessary for working in Fabric, and load some data from remote storage into the newly created data store.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you need an active Power BI account and Microsoft Fabric activated. Follow the steps described in the Technical requirements section of this chapter to activate the Fabric trial license if you have not done so already.
How to do it...
We shall start by creating a Microsoft Fabric workspace, then we’ll instantiate a Lakehouse and load data using the Microsoft Fabric Copy data wizard:
- Open Fabric at https://app.fabric.microsoft.com/home and log in to...
