Forging Curated Data in the Age of Castles and Guilds
In a realm where raw data arrives like unrefined ore at the city gates, skilled data craftsmen must transform it into something worthy of the king’s ledger.
If you are accustomed to shaping data through SQL and intend to continue that craft within Microsoft Fabric, Materialized Lake Views deserve a place in your guild’s toolkit.
Through a carefully ordered chain of SQL declarations, you can refine raw bronze data into trusted gold datasets—much like a blacksmith forging steel from ore. Yet Materialized Lake Views are more than simple scripts etched on parchment: they support incremental execution, preserve lineage like a well-kept chronicle, and can be scheduled to run as reliably as the tolling of the town bell.
This demo-rich session guides seasoned Fabric travelers who are new to Materialized Lake Views through the why and how of this powerful construct—revealing how to build durable, observable, and efficient data pipelines fit for any modern data kingdom.
About the speaker
Nico Jacobs
Dr. Nico Jacobs started his career as a data mining researcher at the university of Leuven, Belgium. He joined U2U in 2004 as an instructor, author and technology strategist. His current technical expertise focuses on Power BI and Data Engineering/Data Science on Microsoft Azure. As a passionate trainer, Nico likes to inspire his students to gain a thorough knowledge on the subject. Nico regularly speaks at local and international conferences. You can see what he’s up to by following @SqlWaldorf on Twitter .
