SQLBits 2024
From Beginner to Certified: A Fabric Analytics Engineer Workshop
In this full day workshop, we’ll cover the skills and tasks required for a career as a Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer and prepare you for the DP-600 Certification Exam.
In this full day workshop, we’ll cover the skills and tasks required for a career as a Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer and prepare you for the DP-600 Certification Exam. Attendees for this session will learn about planning, implementing, and managing a data analytics environment; preparing and serving data; implementing and managing semantic models; and exploring, querying, and analyzing data.
We’ll explain how to identify the requirements for a data analytics solution, such as the components, features, performance, and capacity SKUs; how to manage the analytics development lifecycle; how to create objects in a lakehouse or warehouse by using a data pipeline, dataflow, or notebook; how to transform your data and optimize performance; design, build and optimize enterprise scale sematic models and finally explore and analyze your data using SQL. This workshop will prepare you for completing the Fabric Analytics Engineer Cloud Skills challenge and receive a 50% off voucher for the certification exam.
We’ll explain how to identify the requirements for a data analytics solution, such as the components, features, performance, and capacity SKUs; how to manage the analytics development lifecycle; how to create objects in a lakehouse or warehouse by using a data pipeline, dataflow, or notebook; how to transform your data and optimize performance; design, build and optimize enterprise scale sematic models and finally explore and analyze your data using SQL. This workshop will prepare you for completing the Fabric Analytics Engineer Cloud Skills challenge and receive a 50% off voucher for the certification exam.
Speakers
Mark Pryce-Maher's other proposed sessions for 2026
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Mark Pryce-Maher's previous sessions
From Beginner to Certified: A Fabric Analytics Engineer Workshop
In this full day workshop, we’ll cover the skills and tasks required for a career as a Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer and prepare you for the DP-600 Certification Exam.
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Fabric Product Group - Ask us Anything
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Fabric Power Hour
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A Deep Dive into Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
Deep Dive into Data Warehousing in Microsoft Fabric. Explore the intricacies of Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, unraveling its capabilities and demonstrating effective strategies for its utilization.
Bradley Ball
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Bradley Ball's previous sessions
From Beginner to Certified: A Fabric Analytics Engineer Workshop
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