Adapting to Fabric Spark: A SQL Server Practitioner’s Path Forward

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This workshop is for SQL Server practitioners, used to reading query plans and caring about stats, stepping into Fabric. It covers Lakehouses and Spark, showing how your skills still apply in: * Understanding the Spark engine * Reading query plans and statistics * Using the Delta Lake engine The takeaway is that approaches might differ, but the knowledge carries over.