Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse, Data Factory, Spark & SQL, Gen2

This course is a complete, hands-on masterclass on Microsoft Fabric, designed to take you from absolute fundamentals to advanced, real-world data engineering workflows. It is built with a strong focus on practical implementation, not just theory, and follows a clear learn-by-doing approach throughout.Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft’s unified analytics platform, and mastering it requires a deep understanding of its architecture, storage layer, data ingestion tools, transformation capabilities, orchestration, monitoring, and large-scale processing engines. This course covers every major component of Microsoft Fabric in detail, ensuring you gain real production-level skills.You will begin by understanding the core foundation of Microsoft Fabric, including platform overview, account setup, tenants, workspaces, capacities, and item hierarchy. These concepts are explained clearly so you fully understand how Fabric operates at an organizational and enterprise level before moving into implementation.The course then moves into OneLake and Lakehouse architecture, where you learn how Microsoft Fabric unifies storage across analytics workloads. You will work with OneLake, OneLake File Explorer, create and manage Lakehouses, design tables, and implement shortcuts. Internal shortcuts, external shortcuts, and shortcut caching are covered in depth, giving you a strong understanding of data virtualization and storage optimization inside Fabric.A major strength of this course is its deep and practical coverage of Microsoft Fabric Data Factory. You will design pipelines step by step and work extensively with real pipeline activities used in production environments. This includes Copy Data, Delete, Get Metadata, Filter, Lookup, Parameters, ForEach, If Condition, Set Variable, Notification, Invoke Pipeline, and Wait activities. You will also learn how to schedule pipelines using triggers, automate workflows, and monitor p