Tutorial: Create a Microsoft Fabric workspace

Applies to: ✅ SQL analytics endpoint and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric

Before you can create a warehouse, you need to create a workspace where you'll build out the remainder of the tutorial.

Create a workspace

The workspace contains all the items needed for data warehousing, including: Data Factory pipelines, the data warehouse, Power BI semantic models, operational databases, and reports.

  1. Sign in to Power BI.

  2. Select Workspaces > New workspace.

    Screenshot of workspaces pane showing where to select New workspace.

  3. Fill out the Create a workspace form as follows:

    1. Name: Enter Data Warehouse Tutorial, and some characters for uniqueness.
    2. Description: Optionally, enter a description for the workspace.

    Screenshot of the Create a workspace dialog box, showing where to enter the new workspace name.

  4. Expand the Advanced section.

  5. Choose Fabric capacity or Trial in the License mode section.

  6. Choose a premium capacity you have access to.

  7. Select Apply. The workspace is created and opened.

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