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Father of 4, Sr. CSA at #Microsoft, Comic Book aficionado, I ❀️ roller coasters. cohost aka.ms/TftF/youtube Opinions are my own. πŸ§΅β€™s @sqlballs

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Microsoft Fabric: Incremental Copy Job on Prem SQL to Fabric SQL DB or Warehouse
YouTube video by Tales From The Field Microsoft Fabric: Incremental Copy Job on Prem SQL to Fabric SQL DB or Warehouse

Importing from on-prem #SQLServer to #MicrosoftFabric Warehouse & #FabSQL using Incremental Copy Job?

Let’s break it down + key differences between Merge vs Append!

Link: youtu.be/Q8ifzuOWbI8

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06.08.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Microsoft Fabric: Power BI Copilot End to End tutorial
YouTube video by Tales From The Field Microsoft Fabric: Power BI Copilot End to End tutorial

πŸŽ₯ #WatchbackWednesday
Explore how #PowerBI Copilot in #MicrosoftFabric transforms your data workflow.

This end-to-end tutorial has it all!

πŸ“Ί www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTI2...

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30.07.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chicago #Cubs legend Ryne Sandberg goes 5-for-6 with 7 RBI, including a game-tying HR in the 9th AND 10th inning vs. St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bruce Sutter at Wrigley Field! (1984) #SandbergGame #MLB #Baseball #Legend #RIPRyno

29.07.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 144    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5
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She’s a very good girl innocently playing with her green chew toy…… but you would not believe what she witnessed!

29.07.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will be texting, we need another walk soon!

28.07.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tagging @talesfromthefield.bsky.social @sqlballs.com @joshluedeman.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social

22.07.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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28.07.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, no touch. This is strictly a I don’t mess with you, but we inhabit the same walking path together kind of friendship.

…. I would probably stop traffic to help him cross the road, but we aren’t going for lunch.

28.07.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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28.07.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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He would like you much better. It’s your charm.

28.07.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Made a new friend on the morning walk, my gut tells me that they are an introvert.

28.07.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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I used to do that. After all the reports of the devices listening even when that feature was disabled, and the teams of people going through audio logs …… I took them out of all the bedrooms.

It made me miss good old fashion intercom buttons where no evil tech conglomerates were listening in.

16.07.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

During the school year, my daughter & I have a system. She has to come downstairs and put a piece of fruit on the island in the kitchen.

This way when I wake up & I make her lunch if I don’t see the piece of fruit, I go upstairs and knock on her door to make sure she’s awake

16.07.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a great time, we also spent a good amount of time wishing @itsnotaboutthecell.com a very Happy Birthday #AlexAllTheThings!!!

16.07.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tales From The Field https://www.youtube.com/@Tales-from-the-Field?sub_confirmation=1 Welcome to Tales from the Field! This channel features Bradley Ball aka @SQLBalls, Andres Padillia, Josh Luedeman, Neeraj Jhaveri, Da...

More was covered, don't forget to check out the live stream and get ready for August when we will have another!

Link: www.youtube.com/@Tales-from-...

16.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Result Set Caching - Microsoft Fabric Learn more about result set caching, a performance optimization for the Fabric Data Warehouse and Lakehouse SQL analytics endpoint.

@bradleyschacht.com 's favorite new feature is the preview introduction to Result set caching!

Result set caching (preview) learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric...

We discussed the architecture and how this will improve performance for #MicrosoftFabric Warehouse users!

16.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - ecotte/Fabric-Monitoring-RTI Contribute to ecotte/Fabric-Monitoring-RTI development by creating an account on GitHub.

An attendee asked about how to monitor OPDG with RTI & Chris shared a great #Github project, we examined this a bit more together!

Fabric-Monitoring-RTI github.com/ecotte/Fabri...

Great discussion around this, and looking forward to trying this out!

16.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Continuous Ingestion from Azure Storage to Eventhouse (Preview) | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric The integration of Azure Storage with Fabric Eventhouse for continuous ingestion represents a significant simplification of data ingestion process from Azure Storage to Eventhouse in Fabric Real-Time ...

When we asked about Chris's favorite new feature he said Continuous Ingestion from Azure Storage to Eventhouse (Preview)

blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/c...

We had discussions about how this live loader can be used and more!

16.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fabric June 2025 Feature Summary | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric Welcome to the June 2025 update. The June 2025 Fabric update introduces several key enhancements across multiple areas. Power BI celebrates its 10th anniversary with a range of community events, conte...

We started out discussing the Fabric June 2025 Feature Summary blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/f...

Lot's of great content in there!

16.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft Fabric PG Updates July 2025 YouTube video by Tales From The Field

Great Live Stream with the #MicrosoftFabric PG yesterday including @bradleyschacht.com & Christopher Schmidt!

Link: youtube.com/live/tr6Z2yj...

We had lots of great links to share and discussions!

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16.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Microsoft Fabric PG Updates July 2025 YouTube video by Tales From The Field

🚨 Your Next Chance to talk to the #MicrosoftFabric PG is here!! 🚨

Next Tuesday 7/15 at 10 am EST we will be live!

Link: youtube.com/live/tr6Z2yj...

Hope to see you there!

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08.07.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Really missed you all and SQLBits as well!

24.06.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh you will have loads & loads of knowledge in your room my friend!! Looking forward to seeing you!

23.06.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s a beautiful morning to teach #MicrosoftFabric at #Datacon cc @techcon365.bsky.social @dbabulldog.bsky.social @buckwoodymsft.bsky.social @justrie.bsky.social

23.06.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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20.06.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Microsoft Fabric: API to Get Job Status
YouTube video by Tales From The Field Microsoft Fabric: API to Get Job Status

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πŸŽ“ June 18: New #LearnWithMe video by
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πŸ’‘ β€œMicrosoft Fabric: API to Get Job Status”
πŸ“Ή Watch now β†’ youtu.be/nYuMr44T810
#MicrosoftFabric #TechTalks #AIcommunity

❀️ Like what you see?

πŸ‘ Like | πŸ” Retweet | πŸ”” Subscribe β†’ www.youtube.com/@Tales-from-...

20.06.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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20.06.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will test this out and try to replicate it, will hit you up on DM’s when I do.

20.06.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m intrigued, does it show up on the monitoring page or is it a process that’s occurring in the event house database itself that isn’t finishing?

20.06.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a fun one to figure out, next week we go through a data pipeline using the job status we get from the notebook, to use conditional logic to load our #Lakehouse! #StayTuned!!

19.06.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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