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Microsoft Fabric August 2023 update

Welcome to the August 2023 update. We have lots of features this month including the new layout switcher for Power BI, SSD caching in Synapse Data Warehouse, in-line Python support for KQL in Synapse Real-time Analytics, lookup activity for Data Factory Dataflows, and much more. Continue reading for more details on our new features! Contents …

Create Metadata Driven Data Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric

Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory and Synapse Pipelines, and now, Microsoft Fabric, give you the capability to ingest and transform data with less code, reduced maintenance and greater scalability than writing code or pipelines for every data source that needs to be ingested and transformed. The key lies in identifying the data loading and …

Introducing High Concurrency Mode in Notebooks for Data Engineering and Data Science workloads in Microsoft Fabric

We are excited to announce a new high concurrency mode in Fabric for Data Engineering and Data Science. This allows users to share Spark compute across multiple notebooks within a workspace which means that you can run multiple Spark notebooks simultaneously on the same Spark session without compromising performance or security when paying for a …

Service principal support to connect to data in Dataflow, Datamart, Dataset and Dataflow Gen 2

Today I am very excited to announce that Azure service principal has been added as an authentication type for a set of data sources that can be used in Dataset, Dataflow, Dataflow Gen2 and Datamart.  Azure service principal is a security identity that is application based and can be assigned permissions to access your data …