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Capacity Scheduler: Smarter capacity control for Eventhouse (Preview)

Modern, real-time analytics workloads are rarely flat. In Eventhouse, some of the customers consistently told us that their usage follows clear, predictable patterns: heavy ingestion during business hours, lighter query traffic overnight, quiet weekends, and short but critical pipeline windows. Previously, customers had to choose a single minimum capacity value for the entire week, paying … Continue reading “Capacity Scheduler: Smarter capacity control for Eventhouse (Preview)”

ALTER TABLE inside explicit transactions in Fabric Data Warehouse (Generally Available)

Schema evolution is a fact of life for modern analytics platforms. As data models grow, teams need to add columns, drop unused fields, and evolve constraints—often as part of tightly controlled deployment pipelines. Fabric DW supported transactional execution for key table‑focused DDLs like CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, TRUNCATE TABLE, CTAS and sp_rename—with this release, ALTER … Continue reading “ALTER TABLE inside explicit transactions in Fabric Data Warehouse (Generally Available)”

Associated identities for items (Preview)

Background Currently, many items rely on the item’s owner identity for accessing connections and certain features (like delegated mode in SQL endpoint) specific to the item. If the owner leaves the organization or their credentials expire, items can become partially or fully non-functional. We’ve heard from many of you that the current remediation path (like … Continue reading “Associated identities for items (Preview)”

Shortcut transformations: Turn files into Delta tables without pipelines (Generally Available)

Organizations today manage data across multiple storage systems, often in formats like CSV, Parquet, and JSON. While this data is readily available, turning it into analytics-ready tables typically requires building and maintaining complex ETL pipelines. Shortcut transformations remove that complexity. With Shortcut transformations, you can convert structured files referenced through OneLake shortcuts into Delta tables … Continue reading “Shortcut transformations: Turn files into Delta tables without pipelines (Generally Available)”