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Matt Walker

From Knowledge Debt to Governed Analytics: Migrating Legacy Power BI to dbt in Microsoft Fabric

March 11, 2026

Reader Summary This is part of a three-part series on Microsoft Fabric strategy. Other parts will cover AI, ontologies, and…

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How Microsoft Fabric Elevates the Principles of Data Mesh

September 16, 2024

Data Mesh represents a paradigm shift in enterprise data management, focusing on decentralization, domain-specific ownership, and treating data as a…

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Databricks Local Development in Visual Studio Code

October 26, 2020

Databricks provides a robust notebook environment that is excellent for ad-hoc and interactive access to data. However, it lacks robust…

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Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB

August 14, 2020

Bridging the gap between serverless OLTP and Analytics Cosmos DB is unabashedly a document-based Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) system. It…

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Relational Database Versioning and DevOps

June 12, 2020

Relational database source control, versioning, and deployments have notoriously been challenging. Each instance of the database (Dev, Test, Production) can…

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Data Privacy and Data Lake with Databricks DeltaLake

February 10, 2020

Data Lake has become a mainstay in data analytics architectures. By storing data in its native format, it allows organizations…

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