Sam Debruyn

Polaris is the distributed SQL engine behind Fabric Data Warehouse, bringing SQL Server query processing into a stateless architecture over OneLake. Based on the Polaris papers, this session explains how T-SQL in SQL Pools is compiled by the Front End nodes, optimized into distributed physical plans, orchestrated by the Distributed Computing Platform as workflow DAGs, and executed by Back End compute nodes over data cells. We connect that engine design to Parquet storage, Delta Lake log publishing, query decorrelation, and snapshot isolation, and show what it means for data movement, concurrency, plan quality, and performance at scale.

Is your Fabric Data Warehouse running smoothly – or are you just hoping it is? This session covers the tools and techniques for monitoring and optimizing your warehouse at scale.

After loading all of your data into OneLake, you might be wondering how to ensure its quality. In this session, we’ll explore and demonstrate how Soda can help you monitor data quality with automated data testing and alerting, write and monitor data contracts, and browse data quality metrics in a user-friendly dashboard.

Unlock the full potential of your Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse or Lakehouse. This session dives into dbt, a tool that streamlines SQL development within Fabric.

Learn how to secure Fabric Data Warehouse from the ground up. This session covers end-to-end practices—from secure connectivity and authentication to auditing, monitoring, and governance—highlighting new features that strengthen compliance, visibility, and trust at scale.

Join us on an exhilarating exploration of the data landscape as we delve into the phenomenon that is dbt. It has taken the world by storm and is now the most popular data transformation tool. Let’s dive into this new era and witness the renaissance of SQL at the core of data analytics, bringing it back to those who know the data best.

Learn all about dbt from one of the authors of dbt-fabric. Discover how dbt empowers data teams with functionalities like data documentation, automated testing, and data lineage for reliable and insightful analytics.

Designing a medallion architecture is more than just setting up a few Lakehouses and Data Warehouses. In this session, data architects and engineers learn how to design a medallion architecture with Fabric Workspaces, Capacities, and Domains. We’ll cover the segregation of responsibilities, granular access control, and how to pick and choose the right Capacities for every workload. By the end of this talk, you’ll be ready to design a scalable and secure data platform with Microsoft Fabric.

Designing a medallion architecture is more than just setting up a few Lakehouses and Data Warehouses. In this session, data architects and engineers learn how to design a medallion architecture with Fabric Workspaces, Capacities, and Domains.

dbt is the new data transformation tool taking the world by storm. It lowers the barrier of entry into the world of data analytics to everyone who ever wrote a line of SQL.