Benefits and limitations

 There's more than one way to ETL or ELT data in Microsoft Fabric. Consider the benefits and limitations for using Dataflows Gen2.

Benefits:

• Extend data with consistent data, such as a standard date dimension table.
• Allow self-service users access to a subset of data warehouse separately.
• Optimize performance with dataflows, which enable extracting data once for reuse, reducing data refresh time for slower sources.
• Simplify data source complexity by only exposing dataflows to larger analyst groups.
• Ensure consistency and quality of data by enabling users to clean and transform data before loading it to a destination.
• Simplify data integration by providing a low-code interface that ingests data from various sources.

Limitations:

• Dataflows aren't a replacement for a data warehouse.
• Row-level security isn't supported.
• Fabric capacity workspace is required.

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