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If you've been around here for a while, you probably know me as the crayons and coding girl. If you're new, welcome. Pull up a chair. I'm going to reintroduce myself because honestly, I'm not the same person I was when I started this blog, and I think that's worth saying out loud. People ask me all the time how I got here. "Here" being a Senior Solution Engineer at Microsoft, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, working in Azure, married to another Microsoft Azure person, raising t

Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Foundry are transforming how developers and data professionals build and manage data-driven applications. When combined with Azure AI Search, these tools create a powerful environment for creating intelligent, scalable search experiences. This post explains how to use Microsoft Fabric and Foundry together with Azure AI Search to build smarter applications that deliver faster, more relevant results. Data flow diagrams displayed on digital screens

Microsoft exams are a bit like debugging someone else's code. You feel optimistic at the start, confused in the middle, and victorious at the end once you realize everything finally makes sense. The certification landscape keeps evolving, and staying certified requires knowing both how to pass the exams and how renewals work each year. This guide breaks down practical strategies, realistic study timelines, what expires and what does not, plus up‑to‑date links to the newest ex

The Fabric Data Agent is a conversational AI feature in Microsoft Fabric that lets users ask natural language questions about organizational data and get accurate answers from a coworker who actually reads documentation. It works across data in lakehouses, warehouses, Power BI semantic models, KQL databases, and Fabric ontologies. The mission is to make data exploration simple because SQL is brilliant but not everyone wants to write a CTE during a meeting. To use it, you need