Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Working with large data types in Fabric Data Warehouse

Traditionally, warehouses are designed for smaller data types (numbers, dates, smaller strings) that are suitable for efficient analytics. Currently, Fabric Data Warehouse has a limit that allows you to store string or binary data up to 8KB per cell. Increasing this limit has been one of the top requests for Fabric DW. We are excited … Continue reading “Working with large data types in Fabric Data Warehouse”

Mirroring Azure SQLDB – new features and what’s coming up?

Overview This blog will walk thru the new capabilities in Mirroring Azure SQLDB in Fabric since our public preview announcement earlier in March 2024. Today, we also announced general availability of Mirroring for Snowflake in Microsoft Fabric. To recap, the 3 key benefits of Mirroring are: Over the past few months, we’ve removed limitations to … Continue reading “Mirroring Azure SQLDB – new features and what’s coming up?”

Fabric Change the Game: Embracing Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

In this new post of our ongoing series, we’ll explore setting up Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, leveraging the Vector Search capabilities of AI Search Services through Microsoft Fabric’s Lakehouse features. Additionally, we’ll explore the integration of Cosmos DB Mirror, highlighting the seamless integration with Microsoft Fabric. It’s important to note that this approach harnesses … Continue reading “Fabric Change the Game: Embracing Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL”

Fabric Capacities – Everything you need to know about what’s new and what’s coming

The Fabric Capacities team is excited to share details about the improvements we’re making to the Fabric capacity management platform for Fabric and Power BI users. In this article we’ll cover: What are Capacities? Fabric is a unified data platform that offers shared experiences, architecture, governance, compliance, and billing. Capacities provide the computing power that … Continue reading “Fabric Capacities – Everything you need to know about what’s new and what’s coming”