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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 …

Announcing Full Collation Support for SQL Databases in Microsoft Fabric (Preview)

We heard from you and are introducing a major update for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. Now, you can use all Azure SQL database collations when creating databases. This enhancement gives SQL database in Fabric users greater flexibility and compatibility for global data scenarios, reporting, and app development—no matter your language or regional requirements. What …

What’s new in Fabric Eventstream: 2026 Q1 Edition

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 …

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 …