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Paul Andrew
@mrpaulandrew.bsky.social
Director & Co-Founder of CloudFormations.org | Technical Data Architect, Engineer, Speaker, Blogger, Mentor, Author, Host of EastMidlandsData.com | Microsoft MVP | Creator of procfwk.com now CF.Cumulus | Star Wars fan | Husband | Father
Webinar Alert: I'll be hosting and presenting next month at a webinar on what we've called 'Fabric in Production - Stories From the Field'. We're built several #MicrosoftFabric solutions now for our customers and keen to share knowledge.

www.cloudformations.org/post/getting...
Getting Microsoft Fabric into Production - Stories from the Field + Q&A
Webinar - Free to attend knowledge sharing.Join Cloud Formations and industry peers for a practical, story-driven session on what it really takes to move Microsoft Fabric analytics solutions into prod...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This Wednesday evening, join me ONLINE at 6:15pm, for a story about #MicrosoftFabric and #GitHub from felllow data platform MVP @kevchant.bsky.social speaking at the #EastMidlandsData #MeetUp.

Hope to see you there (on Teams)!

#DevOps & #KevOps 😉

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13th August 25 | East Midlands Data | **ONLINE** | Speaker - Kevin Chant, Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup
**___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:15 – Join Teams Meeting. Networking 18:30 – Guest Speaker Tal
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August 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by Paul Andrew
Since the FUAM offering to provide monitoring in #MicrosoftFabric was updated yesterday I thought I better share this post again.

Be aware that the main orchestration pipeline now uses different default values.

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Tips for implementing FUAM in Microsoft Fabric - K Chant
In this post I share some tips for implementing FUAM in Microsoft Fabric. Since I have seen multiple questions relating to FUAM appear.
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July 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
LIVE NOW, join me ONLINE the #EastMidlandsData #MeetUp with special guest @wstrasser.bsky.social talking to us about data governance, as requested by our attendees. 🙂

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11th June 25 | East Midlands Data | ONLINE | Speaker - Wolfgang Strasser , Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:00 - Online Chat & Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:3
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June 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Join me in #Nottingham this Wednesday evening for the East Midlands Data #MeetUp.

Special guest Matt Collins will be talking about how to 'Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework'

Plus, I have a box of #Microsoft swag to give away!! 😉

www.meetup.com/eastmidlands...
14th May 25 | East Midlands Data | Nottingham | Speaker - Matt Collins, Wed, May 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:00 - Arrive. Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:30 - Pi
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May 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thanks #Microsoft @microsoft.com for moving the Edge browser profile switching from the top left to the top right! Why??
~5 years of muscle memory! Sigh 🤬
May 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
So, just killed a customers Fabric F64 capacity with a nested pipeline ForEach, only 100 concurrent copy activities. #MicrosoftFabric sigh!
April 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Happy chocolate egg weekend friends! 🙂

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April 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The journey to the #MVPSummit begins… arriving in Seattle around 2am tomorrow morning. Yay! 😴

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March 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Reposted by Paul Andrew
Refreshing hidden tables in #PowerBI semantic models with Fabric Data Pipelines blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/03/09/r...
Refreshing hidden tables in Power BI semantic models with Fabric Data Pipelines
Use an expression to define which tables and partitions to refresh
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March 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Getting ready for the #DataWeekender 🙂
See you at 10:20am GMT
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March 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Reposted by Paul Andrew
Our third Fabric session at DataWeekender 7.0 is @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social presenting Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework at 10:20am UTC on Sat 1st March.

Register: https://bit.ly/4b9SsnB. View the schedule: https://bit.ly/46TCJ9i.

#MicrosoftFabric
February 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Blogged: Dynamically Getting a #MicrosoftFabric Item ID - Problem & Solution (Hack!)

Not sure this should be this difficult. But I lost a day to messing about with the Fabric API so wanted to make sure you don't fall into the same rabbit holes! 😘

www.cloudformations.org/post/dynamic...
Dynamically Getting a Microsoft Fabric Item ID
Dynamically getting a Microsoft Fabric item ID at runtime hitting the Fabric API using an Azure Data Factory pipeline
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February 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Reposted by Paul Andrew
Having a fantastic time with the fabulous @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social and @laura-gb.bsky.social in their session: A Data Engineer’s Guide to Platform Governance in Microsoft Fabric—Capacities, Workspaces, Domains, DevOps, and more! 💚

#FabricFebruary #MicrosoftFabric
February 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Reposted by Paul Andrew
And it is official: WE HAVE SOLD OUT OUR TRAINING DAYS! 🔥💚

Don't miss out on the MAINCON day: www.fabricfebruary.com

@guyinacube.bsky.social, @brianbonk.bsky.social, Devang, @jaypowerbi.bsky.social, @marclelijveld.bsky.social, @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social, Laura - you are crazy popular 😎
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January 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Sessions all submitted @sqlbits.bsky.social, hope to see you in soon 😘
January 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Join us tomorrow as we host the excellent @andycutler.bsky.social at the East Midlands Data #MeetUp.

The Reality of #MicrosoftFabric Data Warehouses and Deploying Models using #DBT

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8th Jan 25 | East Midlands Data | Nottingham | Speaker - Andy Cutler, Wed, Jan 8, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:00 - Arrive. Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:30 - Pi
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January 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Thanks Santa (wife) 🙂🤓 #starwars
December 28, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Reposted by Paul Andrew
🎉 The wait is over! SQLBits 2025 is back at ExCeL London from 18-21 June 2025! 📅

Get ready for 4 days of learning, networking & data expertise with the best in the business.

Join THE conference for data pros to grow, connect & share knowledge. We can’t wait to see you! 🙌

#SQLBits2025
December 6, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Do love presenting sessions on a cinema screens 🤓
#BigDataEurope
November 21, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Having a great time in #Lithuania at the 8th Big Data Europe conference. Precon done, lovely speaker dinner done. 3 days to go 🙂
November 19, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Reposted by Paul Andrew
Tuning #PowerBI Copilot with Summarize By blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2024/11/10/t...
Tuning Power BI Copilot with Summarize By
Control how columns aggregate in Copilot
blog.crossjoin.co.uk
November 10, 2024 at 11:37 AM