Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Native Execution Engine available at no additional cost!

We’re thrilled to announce that the Native Execution Engine is now available at no additional cost, unlocking next-level performance and efficiency for your workloads. What’s New?  The Native Execution Engine now supports Fabric Runtime 1.3, which includes Apache Spark 3.5 and Delta Lake 3.2. This upgrade enhances Microsoft Fabric’s Data Engineering and Data Science workflows, … Continue reading “Native Execution Engine available at no additional cost!”

Use OneLake shortcuts to access data across capacities: Even when the producing capacity is paused!

Shortcuts in Microsoft OneLake allow you to unify your data across domains and clouds by creating a single virtual data lake for your entire enterprise. With shortcuts, data can be reused multiple times, making it simple to consolidate data, without data movement, data duplication or changing ownership of the data. The consumption of data via … Continue reading “Use OneLake shortcuts to access data across capacities: Even when the producing capacity is paused!”

Optimizing Spark Compute for Medallion Architectures in Microsoft Fabric

Guidance to Maximizing Productivity and Efficiency for your Data Engineering Workloads Data engineering teams often grapple with the complexities of planning and configuring compute resources for their data platforms. This is especially true when working with large-scale, complex datasets and demanding downstream SLAs. A one-size-fits-all approach is rarely effective, as different data layers and datasets … Continue reading “Optimizing Spark Compute for Medallion Architectures in Microsoft Fabric”

Announcement: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies have been extended to Fabric lakehouses

Extending Microsoft Purview’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies into Fabric lakehouses is now in public preview! This follows the success of DLP for Power BI and the GA of Microsoft Fabric last year. DLP policies help you automatically detect sensitive information as it is uploaded into lakehouses in your Fabric tenant and take risk remediation … Continue reading “Announcement: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies have been extended to Fabric lakehouses”

Using Microsoft Fabric for Generative AI: A Guide to Building and Improving RAG Systems

In the previous blog, we explained how to use Microsoft Fabric to build custom AI applications, focusing on transforming your data into valuable knowledge for Generative AI applications. Specifically, we demonstrated how to implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using Microsoft Fabric, integrating Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. We are excited to share a … Continue reading “Using Microsoft Fabric for Generative AI: A Guide to Building and Improving RAG Systems”