Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Warehouse Snapshots in Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)

Managing data consistency during ETL has always been a challenge for our customers. Dashboards break, KPIs fluctuate, and compliance audits become painful when reporting hits ‘half-loaded’ data. With Warehouse Snapshots, Microsoft Fabric solves this by giving you a stable, read-only view of your warehouse at a specific point in time and now, this capability is … Continue reading “Warehouse Snapshots in Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)”

Decoupling Default Semantic Models for Existing Items in Microsoft Fabric

In our earlier announcement, we shared that newly created data warehouses, lakehouses and other items in Microsoft Fabric would no longer automatically generate default semantic models. This change allows customers to have more control over their modeling experience and to explicitly choose when and how to create semantic models. Starting end of October 2025, Microsoft … Continue reading “Decoupling Default Semantic Models for Existing Items in Microsoft Fabric”

Ingest files into your Fabric Data Warehouse using the OPENROWSET function

Data ingestion is one of the most important actions in the Data Warehouse solutions. In Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, the OPENROWSET function provides a powerful and flexible way to read data from files stored in Fabric OneLake or external Azure Storage accounts. Whether you’re working with Parquet, CSV, TSV, or JSONL files, the OPENROWSET function … Continue reading “Ingest files into your Fabric Data Warehouse using the OPENROWSET function”

Fabric October 2025 Feature Summary

This month’s update delivers key advancements across Microsoft Fabric, including enhanced security with Outbound Access Protection and Workspace-Level Private Link, smarter data engineering features like Adaptive Target File Size, and new integrations such as Data Agent in Lakehouse. Together, these improvements streamline workflows and strengthen data governance for users. Contents Events & Announcements Fabric Data … Continue reading “Fabric October 2025 Feature Summary”

External data materialization in Fabric Data Warehouse

Data warehouses are at the core of modern analytics, enabling organizations to turn raw data into actionable insights. Fabric Data Warehouse empowers data professionals to analyze various types of data from the classic DW table to the Parquet, CSV, and JSONL files. One of the most important decisions when working with external data is how … Continue reading “External data materialization in Fabric Data Warehouse”