Fabric Explorers is back, right where we left off! We are excited to invite you to our upcoming community event on October 28th with Nikola Ilic!

Direct Lake in Microsoft Fabric - Everything you need to know! Date: October 28th, 2024 Time: 18:00 CET to 19:30 CET Speaker: Nikola Ilic, Data Mozart, Microsoft Data Platform MVP

You've heard about the Direct Lake mode in Microsoft Fabric, and, as a Power BI professional, you are curious to learn what all the fuss is about and how you can leverage this groundbreaking feature in real-life scenarios. How does Direct Lake work under the hood? Is it a replacement for the Import and DirectQuery mode? When and why to use Direct Lake over Import mode? These are just some of the questions that we are going to address in this demo-packed session. We will dive deep into Direct Lake's architecture, explain its core concepts, and put it in the ultimate 1:1 comparison with the Import mode! We'll examine various concepts and features that are exclusively relevant to Direct Lake, such as how to refresh the data in Direct Lake models, why some columns are hot and some others are not, and many more... By the end of this session, you'll get not only a deep understanding of Direct Lake internals, but also learn in which scenarios to choose the "Direct Lake path".

To attend, mark yourself as "Going" on the event page and add to your calendar. The join link will be shared closer to the session date. Check back on the event page at session time for the link.