Get started with Microsoft Fabric

Explore how to implement data analytics solutions on a single platform with Microsoft Fabric. Integrate, transform, and store data to train AI models and create insightful reports.

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with basic data concepts and terminology, including data engineering, modeling, and analysis.

Modules in this learning path

Discover how Microsoft Fabric can meet your enterprise's analytics needs in one platform. Learn about Microsoft Fabric, how it works, and identify how you can use it for your analytics needs.

Lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric combine data lake storage flexibility with data warehouse analytical capabilities. Learn how to create a lakehouse, ingest and transform data, and query data with SQL and Spark.

Apache Spark is a core technology for large-scale data analytics. Microsoft Fabric provides support for Spark clusters, enabling you to analyze and process data in a Lakehouse at scale.

Tables in a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse are based on the Delta Lake storage format commonly used in Apache Spark. By using the enhanced capabilities of delta tables, you can create advanced analytics solutions.

Microsoft Fabric includes Data Factory capabilities, including the ability to create pipelines that orchestrate data ingestion and transformation tasks.

Data ingestion is crucial in analytics. Microsoft Fabric's Data Factory offers Dataflows for visually creating multi-step data ingestion and transformation using Power Query Online.

Understand what a Fabric data warehouse is, why it provides full T-SQL transactional capabilities, and how to create, query, and transform data for analytics.

Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric helps you ingest, process, store, visualize, and act on data in motion to get insights from events as they happen.

In Microsoft Fabric, data scientists can manage data, notebooks, experiments, and models while easily accessing data from across the organization and collaborating with their fellow data professionals.

Microsoft Fabric is a SaaS solution for end-to-end data analytics. As an administrator, you can configure features and manage access to suit your organization's needs.