If you've spent years running SQL Server, Microsoft Fabric can feel like someone rearranged your entire office overnight. The good news: most of what you already do as a DBA still applies, you just need to learn where everything moved.

In this session we'll take a friendly tour of Fabric administration built around the instincts you've already earned. We'll start with platform administration and how the admin portal, tenant settings, and workspace roles line up with the access controls you manage now.

We'll talk through connections and gateways, then spend real time on capacity monitoring (capacity units, throttling, smoothing, and the Capacity Metrics app) because that's the part that behaves most differently from a server under load.

By the end, the terminology won't feel foreign, and you'll have a clear map connecting Fabric administration back to the SQL Server world you know.