Microsoft Fabric: Using notebooks and table partitioning to convert files to tables


 

When Microsoft Fabric was born, the only method to convert files to tables was using notebooks. Nowadays we have an easy-to-use UI feature for the conversion.

As I explained on the article about lakehouse and ETL, there are some scenarios where we still need to use notebooks for the conversion. One of these scenarios is when we need table partitioning.

Let’s make a step-by-step on this blog about how to use notebooks and table partitioning.

The steps explained here are based on the same sample data from the lakehouse and ETL article. In that article you can find the steps