Fabric News

We’re excited to announce that Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines now support both On-Premises Data Gateway (OPDG) and Virtual Network (VNET) Gateway across a broader set of external activity types. What’s New? You can now securely connect to on-premises and network-isolated resources using OPDG or VNET Gateway for the following Fabric Data Factory pipeline activities allowing for secure …

Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks are widely used data platforms. This article aims to address the requirement of customers who have large data estates in Azure databricks and want to unlock additional use cases in Microsoft Fabric arising out of different business teams. When integrating the two platforms, a crucial security requirement is to ensure …

We’re thrilled to introduce Automated Table Statistics in Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering — a major upgrade that helps you get blazing-fast query performance with zero manual effort. Whether you’re running complex joins, large aggregations, or heavy filtering workloads, Fabric’s new automated statistics will help Spark make smarter decisions, saving you time, compute, and money. What …

Step into the future of simplicity with Fabric CLI. The Fabric Command Line Interface (CLI) has arrived in preview, bringing with it a seamless way to create SQL databases for your projects. This guide will take you through the steps to get started, ensuring you can leverage the power of Fabric CLI with ease. Prerequisites Before …

OneLake allows for security to be defined once and enforced consistently across Microsoft Fabric. One of its standout features is its ability to work seamlessly with shortcuts, offering users the flexibility to access and organize data from different locations while maintaining robust security controls. In this blog post, we will look at how OneLake security …

Fabric User Data Functions is a serverless platform that allows you to build and run functions on the Fabric platform. You can use your functions to interact with your data and the rest of your Fabric items via native integrations. After the Fabric User Data Functions preview, we have been working on increasing the number …

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform have revolutionized the way developers and organizations deploy and manage infrastructure. With its declarative language and ability to automate provisioning, Terraform reduces human error, ensures consistency, and speeds up deployment across cloud and on-premises environments. In this document, we’ll explore how you can create SQL databases workloads in …

The FinOps toolkit is built on top of the FinOps Framework, providing you a collection of resources to help enterprises facilitate their FinOps Goals. Just announced in the May Updates is an exciting integration with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence. With the latest updates you can now analyze all your cloud spend utilizing Eventhouse. Unlocking the power …

We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Azure Data Factory (Mounting) feature in Microsoft Fabric! This powerful capability allows you to seamlessly connect your existing Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines to Fabric workspaces, eliminating the need to manually rebuild or migrate them. What’s New with GA? Once your ADF instance is linked to a Fabric workspace, you …

Summarize, group, and explore data in one step with the new GraphQL aggregations feature We’re excited to launch a powerful new capability in the Fabric API for GraphQL—Aggregations. This feature brings native support for summary-level insights directly into your GraphQL queries, making your data exploration faster, simpler, and more efficient. Why Aggregations? Until now, getting …