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Fabric Notebooks

Fabric Notebooks

Owned by thierry sinassamy
Last updated: Apr 13, 2024
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  1. What are Fabric notebooks best suited for ?

    Handling large external datasets and performing complex transformations.

  2. Where are Fabric notebooks stored ?

    In the workspace where they’re created.

  3. What languages can be used in Fabric notebooks ?

    PySpark, Html, Spark (Scala), Spark SQL and SparkR (R).

  4. What’s the default engine used in Fabric notebooks ?

    PySpark which uses the Spark engine.

  5. What’s the preferred format for saving data in a LakeHouse ?

    Delta Parquet is the preferred format due to its optimized columnar storage structure and compression capabilities.

  6. What are sone optimization functions for Delta table writes ?

    V-Order and Optimize write are optimization functions that can be used to improve Delta table read and write performance.