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Bradley Schacht

@bradleyschacht

Principal Program Manager at Microsoft

Saint Augustine, FLJoined May 2024

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Bradley Schacht is a Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Fabric product team based in Saint Augustine, FL. Bradley is a former consultant, trainer, and has coauthored 6 SQL Server and Power BI books, most recently Learn Microsoft Fabric. As a member of the Microsoft Fabric product team, Bradley works directly with customers to solve some of their most complex data problems and helps shape the future of Microsoft Fabric. Bradley gives back to the community through speaking at events such as the SQLBits, Fabric Community Conference, PASS Community Data Summit, SQL Saturdays, Code Camps, and user groups across the country including locally at the Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG). He is a contributor on SQLServerCentral.com and blogs on his personal site, BradleySchacht.com.

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BSBradley Schachtbradleyschacht.comAug 12, 2025 · 6 min read

Azure Data Studio is dead...now what?

It was a cold, wet, Tuesday morning. In hindsight I should have known the weather was simply foreshadowing for the harsh reality that would soon confront me. I logged on, opened my web browser, and read the headline that shook me to my core. Azure Da...

BSBradley Schachtbradleyschacht.comJun 19, 2024 · 7 min read

Working with Fabric shortcuts in PySpark

Shortcuts are an important part of the Fabric story. They allow you to access data in storage (OneLake, ADLS Gen2, AWS S3, etc.) without having to copy the data into Fabric. They have many uses including: Creating a hub and spoke architecture (OneLa...

BSBradley Schachtbradleyschacht.comJun 11, 2024 · 2 min read

Gathering useful notebook and environment details at runtime

I was recently working on some tests where I needed to gather some Spark configuration information at runtime to validate that the correct environment was being used (number of executors in my case) and to log some execution details so I could look u...

BSBradley Schachttest.bradleyschacht.comMay 15, 2024 · 8 min read

Using sempy to get SQL query CU cost from the Fabric Capacity Metrics App

Download the notebook used in this post from my GitHub account here:Get SQL query CUs from Capacity Metrics.ipynb A frequent inquiry from customers goes something like this: "I ran a query on the [data warehouse or SQL analytics endpoint] and now I w...