Overview
Explore the data warehousing process and learn how to load, monitor, and query a warehouse in Microsoft Fabric.
Prerequisites
You should be familiar with basic data concepts and terminology.
Outline
Module 1: Get started with data warehouses in Microsoft Fabric
Data warehouses are analytical stores built on a relational schema to support SQL queries. Microsoft Fabric enables you to create a relational data warehouse in your workspace and integrate it easily with other elements of your end-to-end analytics solution.
- Introduction
- Understand data warehouse fundamentals
- Understand data warehouses in Fabric
- Query and transform data
- Prepare data for analysis and reporting
- Secure and monitor your data warehouse
- Exercise - Analyze data in a data warehouse
- Knowledge check
- Summary
Module 2: Load data into a Microsoft Fabric data warehouse
Data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive platform for data and analytics, featuring advanced query processing and full transactional T-SQL capabilities for easy data management and analysis.
- Introduction
- Explore data load strategies
- Use data pipelines to load a warehouse
- Load data using T-SQL
- Load and transform data with Dataflow Gen
- Exercise: Load data into a warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
- Knowledge check
- Summary
Module 3: Query a data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
Data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive platform for data and analytics, featuring advanced query processing and full transactional T-SQL capabilities for easy data management and analysis.
- Introduction
- Use the SQL query editor
- Explore the visual query editor
- Use client tools to query a warehouse
- Exercise: Query a data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
- Knowledge check
- Summary
Module 4: Monitor a Microsoft Fabric data warehouse
A data warehouse is a vital component of an enterprise analytics solution. It's important to learn how to monitor a data warehouse so you can better understand the activity that occurs in it.
- Introduction
- Monitor capacity metrics
- Monitor current activity
- Monitor queries
- Exercise - Monitor a data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
- Knowledge check
- Summary
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