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Real-world problems and the solutions I've found working with Microsoft Fabric & Power BI. Documented as I figure things out.

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Taylor Amy
Data Architect
I write these notes when I solve something worth remembering: a pipeline quirk, a Lakehouse gotcha, a governance pattern that actually works. No fluff, just what I needed to know and couldn't find anywhere else.
Latest entry
2026-06-16· 15 min read

Tenant Management with SemPy: Settings, Audit Events, and Governance Patterns

Walkthrough of the new sempy.fabric.admin module: retrieving the configuration settings for tenants, auditing the activities performed on those settings, capturing everything into the lakehouse, and creating governance use cases such as config drift and activity dashboards.

Microsoft FabricSemPyGovernanceAdministration
Microsoft Fabric
10 min read

Understanding Fabric Capacities: Fundamentals and Administration

A practical walkthrough of Fabric capacity fundamentals: what a capacity is, the different SKU types, how to buy and right-size one, and the admin settings every Fabric operator should know. Part 1 of the Fabric Capacities series.

Pipeline
3 min read

Log Copy Activity Metadata from a Fabric Pipeline into a Warehouse

Capture Copy activity outputs (rows, bytes, duration, status, timestamps) and log them into a Warehouse table for simple observability

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Three kinds of content

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Problem Solving

Issues I've run into and how I solved them. Documented while they're still fresh.

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Performance Work

Optimizations and tuning for pipelines, lakehouses, and Power BI reports.

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Governance & Security

Patterns for compliance and security in enterprise environments.

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