Data Saturday #63 DATA COMMUNITY AUSTRIA DAY 2025

Last year I took the DP-600 exam because I wanted to prove that I am interested in Fabric and providing value to my team beyond current expectations. Preparing for the exam felt nostalgic as I took my last exam in 2020.

The logic was similar, I attended the SQL Saturday in Vienna in 2020 and I thought that attending this year would be a good way to differentiate myself besides the obvious knowledge-sharing aspect.
I was willing to take a train alone and travel to the JUFA hotel and spend the night there to attend well-rested. I'll add a photo from 4 years ago and a new one and you can guess which is which.

It was good to see other esteemed Hungarian data folks attending, I saw most of them twice this week because of the Power BI Meetup.

A side note: I only used my SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab S9 FE tablet to watch The Holiday on Netflix on the train but I still used paper and pen to take notes.

I was glad that I found a good presentation in every timeslot. The presentations I attended were:
- From Synapse to Fabric: A Customer's Perspective from Theresa Hirz, Kristina Preuer
-You shall not pass! Designing access in Microsoft Fabric from Marisol Steinau
-Data Quality Roundtrip 2025 in the Microsoft Data Platform from Oliver Engels
-Building a Fortress of Your Fabric Environment: Best Practices for Data Engineers from Erwin de Kreuk
- From SQL to Insights: Unlocking the Power of Azure SQL & Microsoft Fabric from Strahinja Rodic
Mastering Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse Performance from Filip Popović

All of these above were well-presented and had good Q&A elements.

If you asked me that (so what?) where is the business value I provided from Fabric so far? I would say that just this week I solved a report refresh problem by applying a more granular method for refreshing:
You can refresh a table if it is not hidden by the semantic-model activity in a data pipeline. In my case it was a hidden table so I used a notebook using an environment with the semantic-link-sempy library. I also used a trigger-based method of refresh which loads the related report after the source data had been updated in the database. Most of my experience with Fabric comes from working with notebooks so far.

If you are a fellow Fabric enthusiast living in Hungary, I would love to connect with you via LinkedIn.
It would be nice sharing our experiences regarding Fabric implementation as the road is still being built ahead of us and kind of bumpy as it seems.