Where Fabric users write Spark code interactively, in several languages, to explore and shape data; a pipeline can also call one as an activity.
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Terms in this definition
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- Pipeline
Groups activities logically so that, together, they move and transform data, either one after another or side by side; found in both Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric.
Related terms
- Memory Analyzer
Launch it from a semantic model and this Fabric notebook reports how much memory and storage each table, column, hierarchy, partition and relationship uses, making oversized or high-cardinality columns easy to spot.
- Notebook activity
A pipeline step that executes a Fabric notebook. Values are handed over as Base parameters, filled in automatically from the notebook's parameters cell, and a session tag can be set so runs share one Spark session.