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Setting up a clean machine for Claude Code in Microsoft Fabric
From a fresh macOS VM to Claude Code that can see your Fabric tenant, with Git, Python 3.13, the Azure and Fabric CLIs, skills and MCP.
Field notes on Microsoft Fabric.
Tutorials, deep dives and opinions from 12+ years in the Microsoft data stack. Written by Bas Land, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Certified Trainer.
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Data Engineering · 7 min read
Read Excel Files from SharePoint in Microsoft Fabric with OneLake Shortcuts
Connect Microsoft Fabric to SharePoint, shortcut a document library into a lakehouse and read an Excel file into Spark, without copying it into OneLake.
Data Architecture · 21 min read
An opinionated guide to the medallion architecture in Microsoft Fabric
What belongs in bronze, silver and gold, and why business rules never go in silver. One rule, the system columns and a four-cell gold notebook.
Data Engineering · 6 min read
Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric for Azure Blob Storage
Create a shortcut from a Fabric lakehouse to Azure Blob Storage with a SAS token and read the CSV from a notebook, without copying it into OneLake.
Data Engineering · 7 min read
Let Claude Code test its own work in Microsoft Fabric (at your own risk)
Claude Code can query your lakehouse over OneLake to check its own work. How I set that up, and why the query results leave Microsoft when it does.
Data Engineering · 7 min read
Mirroring an Azure SQL database into Microsoft Fabric
Mirror an Azure SQL database into Microsoft Fabric with a workspace identity, shortcut the schemas into a lakehouse and query them from a notebook.
Data Engineering · 6 min read
Replacing SharePoint Lists with a Microsoft Fabric App
A production Fabric app built with Rayfin replaces SharePoint lists: users edit metadata, a Fabric SQL database stores it, notebooks query it.