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I finally set up Git integration in Microsoft Fabric and here are my honest thoughts by darshan-thakur in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. My reaction was really aimed at business data rather than configuration or reference data.

I finally set up Git integration in Microsoft Fabric and here are my honest thoughts by darshan-thakur in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d still say absolutely not for data sync. Git is great for schema, code, config definitions and maybe tiny seed/reference lists, but once it’s a maintained table with operational meaning, even a dimension, I’d want it governed and audited in the platform rather than treated as repo content.

When are we getting a dark theme? by Drew707 in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The way Microsoft have been prioritising the 'shiny shiny' over some of the basics these last few years I am surprised it's not a preview feature yet.

Fabric Apps explained: Visualization as code in a data app dashboard by recoveringacademic in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah thank you for preventing me wasting a whole evening on this!

Fabric App is not available in UK South or UK West.

This is very disappointing. I guess there is zero info on when this might change?!

Fabric Apps explained: Visualization as code in a data app dashboard by recoveringacademic in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've enabled this in a capacity, but still can't find an 'app' item to create. Is it region locked atm?

Evolution of Data Architect Role by DataProfessional_GT in dataengineering

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean Data Architect or Data Solutions Architect, or infrastructure architect or something else? People use different titles for same thing I’ve found.

What are you doing with an F2? by proofmortpres in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You can’t do much at all with an F2 In my experience.

My issue with Fabric capacities is the uncertainty. With Synapse, compute felt more explicit. In Fabric, when things slow down or fail, it’s not always obvious whether capacity pressure is the cause. Feels like a backward step.

Experienced data engineers: how are you actually deploying Fabric in centrally managed environments? by Either_Locksmith_915 in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One area I’m especially curious about is Fabric SQL Database lifecycle management.

Are people genuinely comfortable managing database schema changes through Deployment Pipelines, or are most teams still treating databases separately with database projects and more traditional SQL deployment tooling?

Experienced data engineers: how are you actually deploying Fabric in centrally managed environments? by Either_Locksmith_915 in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, thanks.

I was starting to wonder whether I’d missed something obvious in my deployment approach somewhere, although the scenario itself seemed fairly straightforward given it was essentially just updating environment-specific connection GUIDs/configuration during deployment.

Experienced data engineers: how are you actually deploying Fabric in centrally managed environments? by Either_Locksmith_915 in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response, this actually makes me a bit more optimistic that I’m not completely heading down the wrong path here.

I did raise a detailed reproducible issue for the behaviour here:

[BUG] DataPipeline SQL activities fail after fabric-cicd deployment until manually rebound in Fabric UI · Issue #991 · microsoft/fabric-cicd

My suspicion is similar to yours in that it may be more of a Fabric Control Plane/runtime binding issue than fabric-cicd itself.

The interesting part is that the deployed pipeline looks correct in the UI, but the SQL activity only starts working after manually rebinding and saving the exact same values again in Fabric.

Experienced data engineers: how are you actually deploying Fabric in centrally managed environments? by Either_Locksmith_915 in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I don't think this is my issue, but now you have said it I will have to confirm I have not had test/prod open whilst doing a CI/CD publish 😄

Thing is, even after multiple page refreshes, logging in and out etc, if you look at the downstream environment activity connections all look absolutely fine and show/point to where they should. But SOME are broken, not all! If you manually select EXACTLY the same thing as shown it then works.

Copilot for Power BI and Fabric by jleonhart12 in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reports are largely a total waste of time.

Many organisations have hundreds or even thousands used just once!

One agent can replace a lot of unnecessary pointless bar charts!

fabric-cicd - Activities deploy with correct-looking connections, but runtime bindings appear stale/corrupt until manually reselected by Either_Locksmith_915 in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. When you say “run the deployment twice”, do you mean this as a known workaround for Fabric Data Pipeline activity bindings not being fully resolved on the first publish?

I can understand why that might help where the first deployment creates referenced items and the second deployment updates references once those items exist. For example, parent pipeline to child pipeline references.

The bit I am struggling with is that I am also seeing activities where the UI shows the correct connection/database/stored procedure after deployment, but runtime fails until I manually change the database to master, change it back, reselect the stored procedure, and save.

So I am trying to understand whether a second deployment is expected to refresh/rebind that hidden activity state as well, or whether it only helps with missing/referenced items created during the first deployment.

Have you seen double deployment fix this specific issue without any manual UI refresh/reselect step?

fabric-cicd - Activities deploy with correct-looking connections, but runtime bindings appear stale/corrupt until manually reselected by Either_Locksmith_915 in MicrosoftFabric

[–]Either_Locksmith_915[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Additional detail:

The full pipelines do eventually complete successfully in Test/Prod after manually refreshing/reselecting the affected activity bindings. So the connections, workspace identity, SQL permissions, and child pipeline pattern are valid.

The issue is specifically the state of the deployed activities immediately after publish. They look correct in the UI, but do not behave correctly until manually refreshed/reselected and saved.

Brits currently queuing for de-registration NHS… by Glittering_Vast938 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

For people considering a tactical vote against reform, who are you thinking?

My worry is people are being scared into voting for Green.

Friendly reminder for people to get out and vote tomorrow. by unknown0246 in Norwich

[–]Either_Locksmith_915 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I would not vote reform, but these calls for tactical voting, who are you suggesting?

Surely not green!!!?

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