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Whose Identity Reaches the Target? OneLake Shortcut Security
How identity flows through OneLake shortcuts: passthrough vs delegated, SQL endpoint access modes, the Direct Lake over SQL exception, and lost policy.
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Findable by Design: Workspace Choices That Shape the OneLake Catalog
How workspace splits, item names, descriptions, endorsement and domains decide what people find in the OneLake catalog, plus a findability test you can script.
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Sensitivity Labels in OneLake: Decide Item Boundaries Before Scale
Fabric sensitivity labels apply per item, not per table, so item boundaries, defaults, inheritance and protection policies need designing before OneLake grows.
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Fabric Warehouse Tables or Lakehouse Shortcuts: Where Each Table Lives
A placement rule for Fabric: when data belongs in a Warehouse table you own, and when reading a lakehouse shortcut through the SQL analytics endpoint is enough.
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Feeding AI Teams Through OneLake Shortcuts Without Over-Sharing
A passthrough OneLake shortcut adds speed but no boundary: how to give data science teams curated Fabric features without opening the whole lakehouse.
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Ingestion vs Curation in Fabric: Where I Draw the Workspace Line
Why I split Fabric ingestion and curation at the landing table, when that means separate workspaces joined by shortcuts, and when one lakehouse is enough.
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OneLake Shortcuts Are Dependencies: Inventory Them Before Scale
Treat every OneLake shortcut as a cross-team dependency: placement, identity, write paths, environment variables and a REST inventory of what points where.
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Keeping OneLake Clean: Design the Workspace Lifecycle Before Scale
How to stop Fabric workspace and item sprawl before it starts: lifecycle states, domains, tags, endorsement, retention settings and a weekly hygiene audit.
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Fast Access Without Eroding OneLake Boundaries in Fabric
Why adding people as Fabric workspace Contributors is the access shortcut that erodes OneLake boundaries, and a faster pattern that keeps them intact.
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OneLake Table Contracts: Owners, Schemas and Failure Modes Up Front
Why OneLake governance has to be designed before scale: table contracts, schema-enabled lakehouses, explicit owners and deliberate failure modes in Fabric.
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Implementing Feature Stores with Microsoft Fabric OneLake
Without a feature store, teams often duplicate feature engineering work across projects. Features computed for training may differ from inference, causing…
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OneLake AI Workloads: Running AI Directly on Your Data Lake
OneLake AI Workloads bring AI capabilities directly to your data, eliminating data movement and enabling efficient large-scale AI processing.
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OneLake Interoperability: Connecting Your Data Ecosystem
1. Use managed identity : Preferred for Azure services 2. Leverage shortcuts : Don't copy data unnecessarily 3. Optimize file sizes : 128MB 1GB for best…
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Lakehouse Federation in Microsoft Fabric
1. Define clear domains : Each lakehouse should own specific data 2. Minimize cross domain joins : Materialize frequently joined data 3. Implement…
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Data Virtualization in Microsoft Fabric
Traditional ETL moves data physically: Virtualization queries in place: Shortcuts create virtual pointers to external data: 1. Use for read heavy workloads…
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Fabric Mirroring GA: Real-Time Database Replication
Mirroring creates a continuously synchronized copy of your operational database in OneLake as Delta Lake tables: As of GA: Azure SQL Database : Full support…
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External Data Access Patterns in Microsoft Fabric
Accessing external data is essential for hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios. Today I'm exploring external data access patterns in Microsoft Fabric.
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Data Sharing Patterns in Microsoft Fabric
Data sharing enables collaboration while maintaining security. Today I'm exploring data sharing patterns in Microsoft Fabric.
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Laying Out OneLake: Workspaces, Lakehouses and Shortcuts
How I decide OneLake layout in Fabric: workspaces as security boundaries, a lakehouse per layer, a flat Tables folder, and shortcuts where copies hurt.
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OneLake Explorer: Navigating Your Data Lake in Fabric
OneLake Explorer is a Windows desktop application that lets you browse the contents of your organisation's OneLake the same way you'd navigate files in…
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OneLake Shortcuts: Connecting Data Without Copying
Of everything announced at Build 2023, OneLake shortcuts might be the feature I find most architecturally elegant. A shortcut is not a copy, not a linked…
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Microsoft Fabric Unveiled at Build 2023: The Future of Data Analytics
All in ONE cohesive experience with ONE security model and ONE business model. At the heart of Fabric is OneLake - think of it as "OneDrive for data." It's…
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OneLake: The Foundation of Microsoft Fabric
OneLake is a single, unified, logical data lake for your entire organization. Think of it as "OneDrive for data" - automatically provisioned when you enable…