Microsoft Fabric is a new centralized, AI-powered cloud data platform hosted by Microsoft. It combines several services of the existing Azure Data Platform – such as Azure Data Factory – with Power BI, while also introducing new services. It’s tempting to compare Microsoft Fabric with Azure Synapse Analytics since Synapse also bundles different services together, but Fabric is so much more. In contract with Synapse, Fabric is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform providing you with many low-code to no-code data services.
This doesn’t mean no code has to be written. On the contrary, in this article we’re going to focus on