A practical reference for the terms, services and patterns behind the Microsoft Fabric production workshop.
- OneLake
OneLake is Fabric's tenant-wide data foundation for governed, reusable analytics data.
- Lakehouse
A Fabric Lakehouse unifies scalable file storage, Delta tables, Spark engineering, and SQL analytics over OneLake.
- Delta Lake
Delta Lake is Fabric’s open table format and transaction layer for reliable, interoperable analytics data.
- Medallion Architecture
Medallion Architecture organizes Fabric data into bronze, silver, and gold layers that progressively improve quality and analytical usability.
- Dataflow Gen2
A low-code Microsoft Fabric Data Factory item for connecting, transforming, and loading data into destinations such as a Lakehouse.
- Data Pipeline
A Fabric Data Factory workflow that coordinates data movement, transformation, control logic, and execution.
- OneLake Shortcut
A OneLake shortcut is a pointer that exposes data from another OneLake or external location without copying it into the consuming Fabric item.
- Direct Lake
Direct Lake is Fabric's semantic-model storage mode for querying large Delta tables in OneLake with on-demand in-memory loading.
- Semantic Model
A governed business-facing model that turns Fabric data into reusable measures, relationships, and terminology for reporting and AI-assisted analysis.
- Slowly Changing Dimension Type 2
A versioned dimension pattern that preserves attribute history so reports can describe data as it was at the time.
- Change Data Capture
An incremental integration pattern that identifies source inserts, updates, and deletes so Fabric can move only changed records.
- Eventhouse
A Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence container for KQL databases that store and analyze time-oriented event data.
- Kusto Query Language (KQL)
A read-only, pipe-oriented language for analyzing event, telemetry, log, and other data in Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence.
- Microsoft Fabric Capacity
A tenant-scoped pool of Fabric compute that runs workloads assigned through workspaces and is sized, monitored, and governed as a production boundary.
- Workspace
A Fabric collaboration, access, and lifecycle boundary that organizes items, people, and workspace-level settings for a data solution.
- Monitoring Hub
A centralized Microsoft Fabric operations surface for reviewing job runs, alerts, capacity health, and related workload activity.
- Copilot for Microsoft Fabric
Copilot for Microsoft Fabric is a set of permission-aware generative AI experiences that assist with Fabric engineering, analytics, and reporting tasks.
- Data Agent
A configurable, read-only conversational interface that uses governed Fabric data sources to answer natural-language questions.
- Delta Lake Time Travel
Delta Lake time travel reads a table’s historical snapshot by version or timestamp without changing its current state.
- Fabric Data Warehouse
A SQL-first, relational Fabric workload for curated analytical models on OneLake-backed Delta storage.