Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

What’s new for SQL database in Fabric?

Spring 2025 round up: performance, Developer Experience, and Data Management! Co-author:  Idris Motiwala This week, at the 2025 Fabric Conference in Las Vegas, we are unveiling a series of features for the SQL database in Fabric, including: performance enhancements, streamlined developer workflows, and improved data pipeline management. Here are the high-level features you can look … Continue reading “What’s new for SQL database in Fabric?”

AI Ready Apps: build RAG Data pipeline from Azure Blob Storage to SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric within minutes

Microsoft Fabric is a unified, secure, and user-friendly data platform equipped with features necessary for developing enterprise-grade applications with minimal or no coding required. Last year, the platform was enhanced by introducing SQL Database in Fabric, facilitating AI application development within Microsoft Fabric. In a previous blog post, we discussed how to build a chatbot … Continue reading “AI Ready Apps: build RAG Data pipeline from Azure Blob Storage to SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric within minutes”

Mirroring in Fabric – What’s new

Mirroring is a powerful feature in Microsoft Fabric, enabling you to seamlessly reflect your existing data estate continuously from any database or data warehouse into OneLake in Fabric. Once Mirroring starts the replication process, the mirrored data is automatically kept up to date at near real-time in Fabric OneLake. With your data estates landed into … Continue reading “Mirroring in Fabric – What’s new”

Copilot and AI Capabilities will be accessible to all paid SKUs in Microsoft Fabric 

Additional authors: Nellie Gustafsson, Joanne Wong We are excited to announce that we will be removing the F64 SKU requirement to use Copilot and AI capabilities in Microsoft Fabric. This means that on April 30th, customers using paid SKUs F2 and above will have access to AI capabilities like Copilot, Fabric data agents, AI Functions … Continue reading “Copilot and AI Capabilities will be accessible to all paid SKUs in Microsoft Fabric “

Announcing backup storage billing for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric: what you need to know

Ensuring data protection with automated backups SQL database in Microsoft Fabric provides automatic backups from the moment a database is created, ensuring seamless data protection and recovery. The system follows a robust backup strategy: This approach lets users restore their database to any point in the past seven days, making data recovery simple and efficient. … Continue reading “Announcing backup storage billing for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric: what you need to know”