MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 10 min readWhat to Expect in a Microsoft Fabric Discovery Sprint: An Honest Scope The proposal says two to four weeks, workshops, stakeholder interviews, a current-state assessment and a target-state roadmap. It reads well. It also reads exactly like the last three proposals you we00
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Sep 8 · 12 min readComplete Guide to Data Lakehouse Architecture Most lakehouse programmes I am asked to review are not failing on technology. They are failing because a decision made in week three — a partition column, a fact grain, a workspace boundary — turned i00
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Sep 7 · 10 min readWhat is Microsoft Fabric? A Manufacturer’s Guide A mid-market manufacturer has Power BI, an ERP, a nightly extract on a file share, an SSIS package on a server nobody wants to reboot, and a cube built by a contractor who left in 2019. Then someone s00
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Sep 2 · 9 min readdbt Tests vs Great Expectations: Which Data Quality Framework Fits a Small Data Team The damage rarely happens in the pipeline. It happens in a Tuesday ops meeting when the director says "that isn't right, we shipped 40 more than that" and everyone quietly stops trusting the screen. A00
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Sep 2 · 9 min readDelta Live Tables vs Fabric Data Pipelines: Late-Arriving IoT Data The Wednesday shift report says the packing line ran in the high seventies on OEE. By Friday the same number has quietly dropped — because a gateway synced two days of buffered readings. The most corr00
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Aug 24 · 12 min readFabric Capacity Optimisation: Reduce Cost, Improve Performance and Scale Smarter A bigger Fabric SKU hides architectural problems; it rarely fixes them. A practitioner's guide to Capacity Units, workload management, Power BI, Spark and Data Factory — so you optimise before you sca00
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Aug 14 · 13 min readWhy Power BI Refresh Fails on Large SAP Extracts: Timeout Thresholds, Root Causes & Fixes The first few million SAP rows refresh fine; at tens of millions Power BI starts timing out. Why large SAP-to-Power BI refreshes fail across the whole chain — and the fixes: incremental refresh, query10
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Aug 14 · 10 min readPower BI vs Qlik Sense: Key Differences in Performance, Modeling and Analytics Power BI is model-first (tabular + VertiPaq + DAX); Qlik Sense is association-first (the QIX associative engine). How they differ on performance, modelling, analytics and governance — and how to choos00
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Aug 11 · 10 min readWhat Nobody Tells You About Microsoft Fabric Licences Fabric is genuinely good infrastructure. But clients are interpreting "unified platform" as permission to skip data engineering. They cannot. The bottom line Microsoft Fabric is a genuinely capable un00
SGShubhojeet Gangulyinwealthmanagementinnovators.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 6 min readThe Role of Microsoft Fabric in Agentic AI ApplicationsThe gap between the slide deck and reality Right now, there is a massive disconnect between what tech executives think artificial intelligence can do and what their actual infrastructure can support.00
