Knowledge map

Topics

Microsoft Fabric organised by capability area. Pick a topic to read its cited article and source claims.

Platform & Governance

What Microsoft Fabric is, how capacities meter compute, and how Purview governs the estate.

Storage & OneLake

One logical lake in open Delta-Parquet format — lakehouses, shortcuts, and mirrored databases over a single copy of data.

Data Engineering & Integration

Moving and shaping data: Spark notebooks, pipelines, and Dataflow Gen2.

Warehousing & SQL

T-SQL over the lake: the Warehouse, the Polaris engine behind it, and SQL database in Fabric.

BI & Semantic Models

From Delta tables to reports: Direct Lake, semantic models, and Power BI.

Real-Time Intelligence

Streams, Eventhouses, and KQL — analytics on data in motion.

AI & APIs

Conversational AI over your estate and programmatic access: data agents, Fabric IQ, GraphQL.

Data Architecture

Fabric-focused architecture strategy, modelling, reusable frameworks, and implementation guidance.

Solution Patterns

Architect-grade Fabric solution patterns for modelling, integration, migration, streaming, and semantic design.