Which part of the world are you signing in from? From Harvey IL. A Suburb of Chicago IL What's your background (current role, industry, ambitions for the future)? I have been in the industry since it was refered to as "Data Processing" and those who wrote code in languages like Cobol, PL1, Fortran, Pascal,SAS, C and Assembler (IBM and DEC) had the popular label of "Programmer/Analyst" (i.e. Which meant you did all the work that Data Analyst and Business Analyst labels do now. There was no specific separation of functions for the most part). Currently considered a SAS/Python/BI cloud and OS agnostic consultant/developer. What attracted you to this community? To interact and possibly glean insights on best practices in using Fabric. What excites you most about Fabric? The possibility of using Fabric as a single tool to perform the same functions that Snowflake and DataBricks do. Those tools share many of the same traits but were designed for different use cases. Fabric may be a tool that can cover most of those use cases. I'm really interested in learning more about the eventual integration in AI space Are you looking to get Fabric certified (DP-600)? I am considering it.

... And of course to state the obvious, those 3 tools (Fabric, Snowflake and Data Bricks) are all sitting on top of or integrating Spark at various times.