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What’s new in Fabric Eventstream: 2026 Q1 Edition

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:00:00 Z

Coauthor: Arindam Chatterjee Over the first quarter of 2026, Fabric Eventstreams shipped meaningful improvements across three themes that have repeatedly come up in feedback from our broad community of customers and partners: broader connectivity, richer real-time processing, and secure enterprise‑ready networking and operations. This post highlights some of the most impactful new Eventstreams-related features and …

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Associated identities for items (Preview)

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 Z

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 …

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Item Recovery in Microsoft Fabric (Preview)

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:30:00 Z

Have you ever accidentally deleted something important? With Item recovery in Microsoft Fabric (Preview), you no longer need to worry. You can easily restore deleted items—whether it was a mistake or something unexpected—within a retention window you control.

Dropped warehouse recovery in Microsoft Fabric (Preview)

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:00:00 Z

Accidental drops can happen anytime—ETL moves fast, schemas change, and mistakes happen. What matters is how fast and predictably you recover.

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

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:00:00 Z

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 …

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Secure data streaming: Custom CA and mTLS in Fabric Eventstream connectors (Preview)

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:00:00 Z

Security is non-negotiable when it comes to real-time data streaming. In regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and telecommunications, organizations must ensure that every data connection is encrypted and mutually authenticated. But many enterprises rely on internal Certificate Authorities (CAs) or require mutual TLS (mTLS) to meet their security policies, which means that the standard, …

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Introducing Migration assistant for SQL database in Fabric (Preview)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:00:00 Z

Modern organizations are at a crossroads. Legacy SQL Server workloads need modernization, but migration complexity often stands in the way. What if you could bring your SQL databases into a unified analytics platform—without the hassle of manual schema conversion, complex ETL pipelines, or costly re-architecture? That’s exactly what the new Migration Assistant for SQL database …

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Use ANY_VALUE() for simpler grouping of results in Fabric Data Warehouse (Generally Available)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:00:00 Z

Fabric Data Warehouse now supports the ANY_VALUE() aggregate, making it easier to write readable, efficient T-SQL when you want to group by a key but still return descriptive columns that are functionally the same for every row in the group. What is ANY_VALUE()? ANY_VALUE() is an aggregate or analytic function that returns an arbitrary value …

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Working with unstructured text in Fabric Data Warehouse with built-in AI functions (Preview)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 Z

Data warehouses traditionally focus on structured and semi-structured data. Free-form text such as notes, logs, or comments was difficult to process in data warehousing scenarios without external components. Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse is opening new scenarios in modern data warehousing by enabling you to work with unstructured text using new AI capabilities. We are introducing …

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Update on User Experience Feedback from the Reddit Thread (General Available)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 Z

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been actively reading through comments in the Reddit thread to gather UX feedback. Thank you all for taking the time to share your experiences — we appreciate your honesty and passion. Here’s a quick update on where things stand: Item dropdown no longer goes off-screen Several users noted that …

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