Content by Microsoft Fabric Blog (379)
The Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces Capacity Scheduler (preview) for Eventhouse, explaining how teams can schedule minimum capacity across the week to better match predictable real-time analytics patterns while keeping autoscale enabled.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Fabric’s “Analyze data with” entry points are being unified across Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Eventhouse (Preview), embedding Eventhouse Endpoint alongside SQL Endpoint and Notebooks to make analysis more discoverable and consistent.
Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces (in preview) how Eventhouse in Microsoft Fabric unifies real-time analytics with anomaly detection, data agent integration, SQL endpoints, and notebooks—aiming to move teams from live event signals to investigation and action without duplicating data or stitching multiple tools.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces that Fabric Data Warehouse now supports running certain ALTER TABLE operations inside explicit transactions, enabling atomic schema changes with automatic rollback for safer deployments.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces the general availability of OneLake File Explorer, a Windows File Explorer integration that lets teams drag and drop local files into OneLake so they can be used immediately in Microsoft Fabric pipelines, notebooks, semantic models, and downstream analytics workflows.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces (preview) full Azure SQL Database collation support for SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric, explaining what collations are and how to set them during database creation via the Fabric REST API and other deployment methods.
Microsoft Fabric Blog (with coauthor Arindam Chatterjee) summarizes Q1 2026 updates for Fabric Eventstreams, covering new connectors (DeltaFlow, MQTT v3, Anomaly Detection), tighter Spark Structured Streaming/Notebook integration, and enterprise networking and security features like private network ingestion and Key Vault-backed custom CA + mTLS.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview feature that lets you associate a user, service principal, or managed identity with Fabric items (currently Lakehouses and Eventstreams) so those items no longer depend on the original owner’s credentials.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces the general availability of Shortcut transformations, a Fabric/OneLake feature that turns files (CSV, Parquet, JSON) referenced via shortcuts into continuously synchronized Delta tables—without building ETL pipelines or writing code.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview feature for Fabric Eventstream connectors that adds support for custom Certificate Authorities and mutual TLS, using Azure Key Vault to store and rotate certificates for Kafka-based streaming sources.
Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces the Migration Assistant (Preview) for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, outlining a wizard-driven process to migrate from SQL Server or Azure SQL Database using DACPAC schema import, compatibility checks, and Fabric Copy Jobs—positioning operational data for OneLake-based analytics and AI workloads.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces general availability of ANY_VALUE() in Fabric Data Warehouse, explaining how this T-SQL aggregate helps keep GROUP BY clauses focused on the true grouping key while still returning functionally dependent descriptive columns like city, state, and country.
Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces (preview) built-in AI functions in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse to extract, classify, analyze sentiment, and transform unstructured text directly in T-SQL, including a prompt-based function for custom processing.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview ADO.NET driver that lets .NET apps connect to Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering Spark workloads via Livy APIs, using familiar ADO.NET abstractions plus Entra ID authentication, pooling, session reuse, and Spark SQL support.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains a Microsoft Fabric (Preview) update that lets you enable workspace-level customer-managed keys (CMK) even when the underlying Fabric capacity is configured for Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), simplifying enterprise encryption and compliance setups while using Azure Key Vault or Managed HSM.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a generally available feature in Microsoft Fabric: email failure notifications for scheduled jobs, configurable per item schedule and supported across Pipelines, Notebooks, Dataflows Gen2, and other schedulable Fabric items.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces new Fabric Data Factory capabilities for Apache Airflow orchestration and pipeline authoring, including native operators to run Fabric items from DAGs, new Airflow job APIs, and preview interval-based scheduling to support common ETL patterns.
Microsoft Fabric Blog (coauthored by Yichao Wu) announces Item Recovery in Microsoft Fabric (Preview), adding a workspace recycle bin and soft-delete retention (7–90 days) so teams can restore deleted Fabric items and preserve permissions, lineage, and labels for recovery, governance, and investigations.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview) can restore a dropped warehouse from the Workspace Recycle Bin within a tenant-configured retention window, bringing back data, schemas, snapshots, and security without manual rebuilds.
Microsoft Fabric Blog (with coauthor Simon Tuson) announces a preview integration that brings Stibo Systems Master Data Management into Microsoft Fabric, ingesting curated master data into OneLake/Lakehouse so teams can use Direct Lake, semantic models, and Fabric AI features for analytics and AI workloads with less ETL overhead.