Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Microsoft Fabric November 2023 Update

Welcome to the November 2023 update.   We have lots of features this month including Narrative visual with Copilot, cross workspace “save as” for Data Factory, the general availability of Semantic model scale-out, and many more. Continue reading for more details on our new features!  Contents Core Microsoft Fabric User API Power BI Reporting Button slicer  … Continue reading “Microsoft Fabric November 2023 Update”

Introducing Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric

As mentioned in Arun’s blog post, we are thrilled to announce that Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric is coming soon. In today’s AI driven world, analytics platforms are only as good as their data. With the ever-increasing amount of data being collected in various applications, databases, and data warehouses in an enterprise, managing and ingesting data … Continue reading “Introducing Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric”

Fabric workloads are now generally available!

Microsoft Fabric is now generally available! Fabric brings together the best of Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Factory into a single software as a service (SAAS) platform. Fabric provides multiple workloads purpose-built for specific personas and specific tasks. Keep reading to learn about all of Fabric’s workloads! Synapse Data Warehouse We … Continue reading “Fabric workloads are now generally available!”

Announcing improvements to CSV data ingestion in Synapse Data Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric

CSV files are widely used for data exchange and data ingestion into data warehouses, but they often pose challenges on performance. In accordance to a study from Microsoft Research, up to 90% of the total time spent in data ingestion occurs in parsing non-binary data such as JSON when using conventional file parsers. This is … Continue reading “Announcing improvements to CSV data ingestion in Synapse Data Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric”

Announcing: Fabric Warehouse support for sp_rename

We are excited to announce that the Data Warehouse now supports sp_rename. With sp_rename, you can rename user objects like Tables, Stored Procedures, Functions etc. Here is an example of how to use sp_rename that fixes a spelling mistake for city: When you use these features, change the schema an object belongs to or drop … Continue reading “Announcing: Fabric Warehouse support for sp_rename”