Fabric Influencers Spotlight August 2025
Welcome to the August 2025 edition of the Fabric Influencers Spotlight, a recurring monthly post here to shine a bright light on the places on the internet where Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users are doing some amazing work on all aspects of Microsoft Fabric.
The Microsoft Fabric Community team has created the Fabric Influencers Spotlight to highlight and amplify blog posts, videos, presentations, and other content related to Microsoft Fabric. We’ve cultivated submissions from members of Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users from the Fabric community that cover the Fabric Platform, Data Engineering & Data Science in Fabric, Data Warehousing, Power BI, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Integration, Fabric Administration & Governance and Databases.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who utilize their deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions, to solve real world problems, and to bring “leading edge” content to the data community. To learn about the Microsoft MVP Award and to find MVPs, visit the official website.
Fabric Super Users are the heroes of the Fabric Community. They contribute helpful answers, write informative blog posts, post data stories and are key contributors to the Fabric product via engagement with the product group. To learn more about the Super User program, visit the official website.
Data Warehouse
Ignacio Barrau, Twitter
Affiliation: Microsoft MVP
Entrada de blog: Fabric Seguridad – Enmascaramiento dinámico de datos
Las seguridad en Fabric se vuelve cada vez más prioritaria a medida que más es adoptado el ecosistema. Cierto es que la mayoría de los casos suelen pasar por como se regulan cuentas de acceso de desarrollo o tal vez permisos sobre recursos puntuales. Incluso cuando queremos afinarla un poco todo termina en una seguridad de la tabla por filas o columnas.
Gran parte de empresas se concentra en permitir o privar acceso a datos específicamente pero cierto es que muchas veces dejamos de lado otra forma de mantener la seguridad y poder trabajar con datos puntuales. Me refiero a enmascarar datos.
En este artículo veremos como enmascarar datos desde Fabric SQL Analytics Endpoint para que usuarios sepan que exista una columna pero su contenido este enmascarado.
Power BI
Dane Christian Belarmino, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Microsoft MVP
YouTube Demo: Power BI trick to mask usernames except for the one currently logged in
This tutorial demonstrates a Power BI setup where the logged-in user’s name is shown, while all other usernames are masked, and all sales values remain visible for comparison. The approach preserves privacy without losing visibility into team performance.
Ilgar Zarbaliyev, X, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Microsoft MVP
LinkedIn Blog Post: Calculation Groups and Field Parameters
This article explores how calculation groups in Power BI can significantly reduce the need for duplicate measures by defining DAX expressions as reusable calculation items, applicable to existing measures in your model. Using the AdventureWorks dataset, it walks through practical examples, demonstrating how to streamline your model, simplify maintenance, and enhance flexibility in reporting.
Data Engineering
Jon Stjernegaard Vöge, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Microsoft MVP
Blog post: Troubleshooting, debugging and Error Handling in User Data Functions / Translytical Task Flows
As a developer of Translytical Task Flows, you are in control but also need to build everything yourself. Do you need data validation or error handling? Perhaps you need logging to improve troubleshooting? This blog shows you how to implement all of the above in your User Data Functions.
Andy Cutler, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Microsoft MVP
Tutorial blog post: Beta Deployment Framework for Materialized Lake Views in Fabric
Materialized Lake Views within Fabric Lakehouses simplify data transformation and loading dependencies. In this blog post I dive into a simple framework in how you can easily work with MLVs without needing to spend time coding, so you can concentrate on writing SQL.
Data Science
Sahir Maharaj, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Fabric Super User
Community Blog Post: Mastering Advanced Pandas for Data Science in Microsoft Fabric
In this edition, I will take you into a deeper layer of Pandas. By the time you’re done, you’ll know how to reshape your data with precision, using tools like melt() and pivot_table() to get it into exactly the structure you need.
Fabric Platform, Administrative & Governance
Heidi Hasting, X
Affiliation: Microsoft MVP
Blog post: Fabric Tenant Admin Settings
Details on the Fabric Tenant Admin Settings, including Overview of Fabric Tenant Admin Settings, API for extracting settings, Notifications for new settings (or lack of them), and Demonstration (Notebook).
Learning & Certifications
Bhanu Gautam, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Fabric Super User
Fabric Community Blog Post: Step-by-Step Strategy to Ace the Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)
Passing the DP-600 exam helped me level up in semantic modeling, analytics governance, and performance optimization. If you’re serious about Microsoft Fabric and want to build enterprise-grade reporting and data models — this certification is absolutely worth it.
Thanks for reading & we’ll see you next month!
That’s all for this month’s spotlight on the Microsoft Fabric Influencers. We wanted to extend our thanks to the MVPs and Super Users whose expertise continues to enrich the Fabric community. We anticipate the innovative ideas and valuable insights that will emerge in the coming months and invite everyone to stay engaged here on the Fabric Community Platform. Together, we will continue to deliver knowledge and collaboration that empowers every member of our community to achieve more.
Stay tuned!
