Bradley Schacht is a Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Fabric product team based in Saint Augustine, FL.
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...
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...
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...
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...
As someone who is newer to the world of Python I have a lot of questions. I mean a LOT. I know my way around SQL really well, but when I come to write some PySpark code I often need to dissect things to better understand what is going on and how to u...
In the coming weeks I'm going to start building out a brand new demo environment and I'm going to blog the whole thing...probably...and I plan to blog the whole thing! As you may (or may not) know, I work on the Fabric product team at Microsoft. I am...
I’m excited to announce that I will be speaking at the February meeting of the Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG). It’s always fun to spend some time with local SQL community. I’ll be presenting a session recapping all the exciting features a...
My favorite time of year is now behind us: Christmas. The weather cools down (I live in Florida, so that's a little iffy), the neighborhood lights up with decorations, people are a little more friendly, church services are more full than normal, Nich...
I'm excited to announce that I will be speaking at the July meeting of the virtual Boston Business Intelligence User Group. I'll be presenting an introductory session on Microsoft Fabric. The session is hosted online so everyone is welcome to join fo...