Passed my DP600 this morning, super pleased!!! Super thankful to this community and the amazing resources on Learn Microsoft Fabric & Fabric Dojo that Will and team have put together. I did a few things to prepare. I went through Wills 6hr video on YouTube on the DP600, the MS Learn content + a few practice tests. I've learnt a huge amount on SQL and DAX as well as semantic modelling throughout my studying, so its been super helpful for me and my job too.

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful break. We are back with a bang already with the recording from our call today reviewing the latest Product and Community updates. 👋 Welcome to the fifth Cross-Community Monthly Update! Each month, I'll be populating this post, with updates from all the Communities/ Channels I manage, PLUS updates from the Fabric Product Team from the recent December 2025 Product Updates - new features. I hear from lots of people that it's difficult to keep up-to-date with Fabric and all the constant changes, so hopefully this will serve as a useful resource for tracking what's changing, and what's important. As always, your feedback is very welcome! 🟩 Learn Microsoft Fabric Community Updates - Well done to everyone that passed their DP-600 or DP-700 exam this month - there are far too many of you to call out individuals - but if you passed, well done! A great way to round off the year. - What to expect in 2026? I'll continue to support and grow the free community in 2026 - doing my best to answer questions and provide support (for free), to as many people as I have the time to support! Thanks for being a part of it and contributing in 2025. 🟦 Fabric Dojo Community Updates for this month - We developed TWO real-world projects in the Dojo in Q4 2025, showcasing two approaches to developing a Fabric Data Platform (for a real-world client). - What to expect in 2026? We will continue to develop and maintain the most comprehensive Fabric Data Engineering education available. - We'll be welcoming @Rui Carvalho - he's a Data Engineer who spends a lot of his time optimizing Spark jobs, and he's an awesome teacher. He'll be delivering a series of tutorials to take your Spark skills to the next-level. - We also have Microsoft MVP @Alexandru Badiu delivering a series on User Data Functions & Translytical Taskflows in Fabric - that is something you won't want to miss, as TTFs is changing how companies are using Fabric/ Power BI in a considerable way (building app-like experiences, where the user can write data back to a Fabric SQL database). - I'll be delivering new content focusing on AI-powered workflows for Fabric Data Engineers - the time is right - it's changing how we work in quite big ways, so let's get on top of it and learn how it can help us build better engineering solutions in Fabric.

I’ve been pretty quiet the past couple of months because I’ve been deep in Python, AI engineering skills, while staying steady with Fabric. I’m grateful to share that I’ve accepted the Senior AI Engineering role at my institution — something I’ve been working toward relentlessly since January. Thanks to everyone who shares their work here; it’s been a huge part of how I’ve kept moving.

Hey everyone, got some very exciting news... for the first time ever (and possibly the last time ever!), you can get 20% OFF a Fabric Dojo Annual Memberships. This deal is ONLY for the next few days, and might never return to be honest - so it's best to act quick! Who is Fabric Dojo for? Put simply, the Dojo is for you: - if you want to learn to build a data platform using Microsoft Fabric - then this is for you. - If you want to go beyond watching videos, and actually get hands-on, building data engineering solutions in Fabric, whilst learning best practices and tips and tricks along the way with 300+ other passionate, like-minded people. We have analysts in there, architects, engineers, managers, a broad mix, which is what makes it exciting! You can read more about WHO benefits from the Dojo by reading our Testimonials. I'm pretty sure Fabric Dojo is the most comprehensive collection of training on topics related to Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering & building your data platform. I've been working on it full-time for over a year now! You will have access to over 120 hands-on tutorials (See the full list here) covering Pipelines, Dataflows, CI/CD, Lakehouses/ Python/ Spark, REST APIs, Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Real-time, Capacities, Optimization, Architecture & much more. Including 40+ hours of solution walkthrough and explanations - we go deep! On top that we have TWO in-depth, real-world projects to tie everything together (this will take you 10 weeks to complete each of them). AND the DP-700 Bootcamp to accelerate your path to certification! AND I'm available everyday to answer your questions, and we have 48+ hours of live calls to network, learn, ask questions, get feedback on your solutions. To sign up, and take advantage of the deal:

A 45 minute keynote about Microsoft Fabric IQ, from Ignite Conference. Something to watch whilst you're having your morning coffee 😀😀 Who's excited about Fabric IQ?!