Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Fabric October 2024 Monthly Update

Welcome to the October 2024 Update! Here are a few, select highlights of the many we have for Fabric this month. API for GraphQL support for Service Principal Names (SPNs). Introducing a powerful new feature in Lakehouses: Sorting, Filtering, and Searching capabilities. An addition to KQL Queryset that will revolutionize the way you interact with … Continue reading “Fabric October 2024 Monthly Update”

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”