Welcome to the February 2026 Microsoft Fabric update! This month brings a wide range of enhancements across the Fabric platform—from improvements to the OneLake Catalog and developer experiences, to meaningful updates in Data Engineering, Data Factory, Real‑Time Intelligence, and more. Whether you’re building, operating, or scaling solutions in Fabric, there’s plenty here to explore. And … Continue reading “Fabric February 2026 Feature Summary”
If you’ve been on X (formerly Twitter) the past two weeks, you’ve probably seen or at least felt the shockwaves. Matt Shumer, CEO of HyperWrite and co-founder of OthersideAI, published a 5,000-word essay titled “Something Big Is Happening” that has now been viewed over 73 million times. In it, he compares this moment in AI … Continue reading “Something big IS happening—is your data platform ready?”
You like writing T-SQL. You’re good at it. Or maybe you’re not. But let’s be honest—there are days when you’d rather not write that same GROUP BY clause for the hundredth time or spend twenty minutes deciphering a stored procedure someone wrote in 2014. Good news: AI-powered assistants are now available wherever you write SQL … Continue reading “No more excuses: AI-powered assistants are in SSMS, VS Code, and Fabric”
Coauthor: Abhishek Narain Ensuring secure connectivity to your data sources is critical for modern data estates. We have released the Key-Pair authentication for Snowflake connections Preview in October and are happy to announce it is now Generally Available (GA). This release offers an enhanced security alternative to basic authentication methods, such as username and password, … Continue reading “Snowflake Key-Pair Authentication (Generally Available)”
Since SQL database in Microsoft Fabric became generally available in November, customer adoption has grown rapidly. Organizations are using it to simplify their data estates, eliminate ETL pipelines, and get their operational data ready for analytics and AI—without managing infrastructure. It’s a fully managed, SaaS-native transactional database built for what comes next. If you’ve been … Continue reading “SQL database in Fabric: Built for SaaS, Ready for AI”
