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Fabric 2024 Holiday recap

Season’s greetings, Fabric Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Fabric team is taking a break for December, with all the planned updates rolling out in January. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.

Fabric turned one at Ignite 2024

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Microsoft Fabric celebrated its first birthday at Microsoft Ignite 2024. Arun Ulag and Amir Netz’s showstopping breakout introduced SQL on Fabric, making it the first-ever SaaS database in the industry, and announced the general availability of Real-Time Intelligence on Fabric. November also witnessed a tidal wave of Fabric announcements – catch up on all of them in the November Fabric Update Blog.

Fabric Community Conference

In 2024 we introduced #FabCon, the Fabric Community Conferences that attracted over 8,000 Fabric fans across 2 sold-out conferences in Las Vegas and Stockholm.

Join us for FabCon 2025 in Las Vegas from March 31 to April 2 for the biggest-ever FabCon. With 4 keynotes, 215 sessions, and 20 full-day Workshops covering Power BI, Fabric, SQL and AI, it’s the ultimate learning event for BI professionals, database professionals, and developers.

Here are 5 more reasons to join us at FabCon in 2025:

  1. The extremely popular Ask the Experts enclave with 12+ dedicated booths to answer your trickiest technical, capacity, and billing questions.
  2. The much-anticipated FREE Partner Pre-Day for systems integrators to help grow their Fabric practice. Check out the key takeaways from Microsoft Partners including why they’re returning for FabCon2025.
  3. The buzzing Community Lounge to connect and collaborate with like-minded professionals, stalwarts (and celebrities) in the data community.
  4. The ever-popular Power Hour where you are guaranteed to learn NOTHING but may luck out with cool swag.
  5. Brand new at FabCon 2025, a Power BI visualization showdown where you get to watch and vote on the best of the best competing for our world title!

Las Vegas, Nevada showing the night life and the Bellagio fountain.

Snag the early bird discount before Dec 31 and use code MSCUST to get another $150 off, this is the lowest it’s ever going to be! Need help convincing your boss, use this letter!

Certification Season is Here!

As the year winds down, it’s a great time to catch up on learning and supercharge your career with new certifications. Consider taking Exam DP-600 to attain the Fabric Analytics Engineer certification – the fastest growing certification in Microsoft history. Ready to dive deeper and test your skills as a Fabric Data Engineer? Take the beta Exam DP-700. More self-study materials will be released in December with general availability expected in mid-January.

That’s it from us for 2024; we’ll see you in 2025 with our monster update in January!

Happy holidays and happy new year!

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