Microsoft Fabric

DPH01 Fast and Furious: Power BI Direct Lake in Fabric

11/20/2025

8:00am - 9:15am

Level: Intermediate

Reza Rad

CEO

RADACAD

Microsoft Fabric is a Sassified analytical suite, and one of the features it brings to Power BI is the new type of connection called Direct Lake. Direct Lake is not only performing fast, but it comes with other benefits, too. In this session, Reza will take you through what the Direct Lake is, its benefits, how it works, and an example of it connected to Lakehouse and Warehouse (and, of course, there will be discussions on the difference between these two objects too), the way it can work with Mirroring in the Warehouse, and many other aspects of it. The session is full of live demos plus slides. Topics covered in this session include but are not limited to Lakehouse, Warehouse, Mirroring, Power BI Direct Lake, Performance considerations, and Fabric.

You will learn:

  • Power BI Direct Lake and how it works
  • About Delta Lake and parquet file format
  • How to set up and use Direct lake with Fabric