Data Platform Tools

Free tools that turn data headaches into decisions.

No sign-up, no email wall. Practical tools I build while migrating real enterprise data platforms — starting with the questions that actually cost teams money on Microsoft Fabric.

Microsoft Fabric · Cost

Fabric Capacity Cost Calculator

See what idle compute really costs you — then find out whether pay-as-you-go with pausing or a 1-year reservation is cheaper for your actual run pattern. The break-even might surprise you.

Open the tool →
Live
F2 → F2048
Every SKU, editable rates
~99 hrs/wk
The PAYG-vs-reserve break-even

In the pipeline

shipping one at a time
Soon Fabric · Runtime

Capacity Throttling Readiness

Map future capacity debt to throttling tiers and see what breaks first when pipelines and Power BI share one F-SKU.

Soon Fabric · Licensing

Pro vs F64 Break-even

At what number of report viewers does jumping to F64 beat buying Power BI Pro seats one by one?

Soon Fabric · Migration

Migration Readiness Scorecard

Ten honest questions, a score, and the risks worth fixing before you start moving workloads.

Soon Fabric · SQL

T-SQL → Fabric Gotchas

Flag what quietly breaks in a Fabric warehouse — case sensitivity, recursive CTEs, and friends.

New tools drop as I publish the Fabric Migration Handbook — each one comes from a real incident on a live migration.