Why Direct Lake breaks if you skipped the medallion discipline
Direct Lake is faster than Import — until your Silver layer is undertyped. Field notes from three Fabric migrations.
Read article →Honest, technical writing on Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, AI and the Power Platform. No thought-leadership fluff — only patterns we've shipped, mistakes we've corrected, and tradeoffs we're still debating.
Direct Lake is faster than Import — until your Silver layer is undertyped. Field notes from three Fabric migrations.
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