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September 1, 2026
On Explicit Measures, Tommy and Mike explain liquid clustering for Delta Lake tables in Microsoft Fabric and why Fabric Runtime 2.0 changes the cost of keeping that layout healthy. They walk Miles Cole's incremental optimize example and Mike's rules for when a Lakehouse Spark job is the right transform.
October 18, 2023
Ep. 259 asks the question every Fabric builder runs into: does a star schema still matter in a Direct Lake world? The answer: yes—especially if DAX is involved—but Fabric changes where the shaping work belongs (upstream) and raises the bar on governance.
September 29, 2023
Ep. 254 explores what ‘SQL in Fabric’ really means—from querying Delta tables in OneLake to the practical gotchas of building lakehouse-style pipelines. You’ll hear why the storage/compute split matters, what it changes compared to Synapse-era patterns, and where Excel-first teams still hit friction.