Microsoft Fabric
How Power BI fits into Microsoft Fabric — OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Factory, and Direct Lake mode.
Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric is the unified data platform Power BI now sits inside — one shared lake (OneLake) underneath Lakehouses, Warehouses, pipelines, and the semantic models that report on top of them.
OneLake (one shared lake for the whole tenant)
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+-- Lakehouse / Data Warehouse (store and transform data)
+-- Data Factory (Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2)
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| Direct Lake
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Power BI Semantic ModelStart Here
Introduction
What Microsoft Fabric is, and how its workloads fit together on OneLake.
OneLake
How OneLake organizes Fabric's data as one shared lake — Files vs. Tables, shortcuts, and security.
Lakehouse
How a Fabric Lakehouse organizes raw and curated data, and how notebooks transform it.
Data Warehouse
Fabric's T-SQL-first alternative to the Lakehouse.
Direct Lake Mode
How Direct Lake reads OneLake's Delta tables directly into Power BI's engine.
See it applied end to end: Build a Product Usage Dashboard on a Fabric Lakehouse lands data, shapes it with a notebook, and connects Power BI in Direct Lake mode, start to finish.