Episode

Learn Together Microsoft Fabric Ep208: Ingest data with Spark and Microsoft Fabric notebooks

with Shabnam Watson, Kevin Chant, Nicolas Georgeault, Amit Chandak

Discover how to use Apache Spark and Python for data ingestion into a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse. Fabric notebooks provide a scalable and systematic solution.

Learning objectives

  • Ingest external data to Fabric lakehouses using Spark
  • Configure external source authentication and optimization
  • Load data into lakehouse as files or as Delta tables

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Introduction
  • 05:34 - Learning objectives
  • 08:17 - Connect to data with spark
  • 20:49 - Write data into a lakehouse
  • 34:01 - Write to a Delta table
  • 41:49 - Exercise - Ingest data with spark and Microsoft Fabric notebooks
  • 01:07:49 - Consider uses for ingested data
  • 01:14:20 - Knowledge check
  • 01:19:57 - Conclusion

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Intermediate
Data Analyst
Data Engineer
Data Scientist
Microsoft Fabric