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Microsoft Fabric 2025 holiday recap: Unified Data and AI Innovation

December 16, 2025 by Alex Powers 213,776 Views

As 2025 ends, we’re taking a moment to reflect on Microsoft Fabric’s second year in the market and the collective progress made alongside our community, customers, and partners. What began as a unified vision for data and AI has grown into a platform adopted by more than 28,000 organizations worldwide, anchored by OneLake and shaped …

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Announcing Copy Job Activity in Data Factory Pipeline (Generally Available)

This milestone marks a major step forward in unifying and simplifying data movement experiences across Data Factory. With Copy Job Activity, users can now enjoy the simplicity and speed of Copy Job while leveraging the orchestration power and flexibility of Data Factory pipelines. What is the Copy job Activity  Copy Job Activity allows you to …

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OPENROWSET and External Tables for Fabric SQL Databases (Preview)

Data Virtualization (Preview) for Fabric SQL Databases, enable you to query, analyze, and ingest OneLake data (CSV, Parquet, JSON) without moving or duplicating it. Data Virtualization brings to Fabric SQL Database the same set of capabilities already available on Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server, customers can now use OPENROWSET and …

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How to Query Database Backups in Microsoft Fabric Without Copies or ETL

In collaboration with Peleg Kazaz, and Liore Shai Every company backs up its business-critical and operational databases. Every data-driven, AI-powered company also mirrors relevant data from its databases and consolidates it into a data warehouse for analytics and AI. These database backups contain the most complete, historical, and current view of the business, and are …

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Large string and binary values in Fabric Data Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoint for mirrored items (Generally Available)

Co-authored with: Ancy Philip Fabric Data Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoints for mirrored items now support large string and binary data using VARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX) types. Large string or binary values in Data Warehouse In Fabric Data Warehouse, this enhancement allows you to ingest, store, process, and analyze large descriptive text, logs, JSON, or spatial …

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Introducing the HTTP and MongoDB CDC Connectors for Eventstream — Inspired by You

  • Headshot of article author November 21, 2025 by Alex Lin 18,867 Views

At Fabric Real-Time Intelligence (RTI), Eventstream empowers users to easily ingest, process, and route real-time data into RTI for dashboard and alerting. Today, Eventstream supports over 30 data sources, including streaming platforms, third-party services, database Change Data Capture (CDC), and public data feeds. We have two new connectors that we’re excited to introduce to you …

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