Guide
Microsoft Fabric Naming Standard
The naming conventions behind a maintainable Fabric tenant. Free PDF.
The naming conventions of the Fabric Enterprise Framework for workspaces, lakehouses, pipelines, notebooks and semantic models. Free PDF.
What's inside
- Naming patterns for workspaces, lakehouses, warehouses, pipelines, notebooks and semantic models
- Environment and domain prefixes that sort and filter cleanly
- Examples you can copy into your own standard
A sample from the Naming Standard
| Item | Pattern | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Workspace | <domain>-<purpose>-<env> | sales-analytics-prod |
| Lakehouse | lh_<layer>_<subject> | lh_silver_customers |
| Warehouse | wh_<subject> | wh_finance |
| Data pipeline | pl_<source>_to_<target> | pl_erp_to_bronze |
| Notebook | nb_<layer>_<action>_<subject> | nb_silver_clean_customers |
| Semantic model | sm_<subject> | sm_sales |