Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Large string and binary values in Fabric Data Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoint for mirrored items (Generally Available)

Co-authored with: Ancy Philip Fabric Data Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoints for mirrored items now support large string and binary data using VARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX) types. Large string or binary values in Data Warehouse In Fabric Data Warehouse, this enhancement allows you to ingest, store, process, and analyze large descriptive text, logs, JSON, or spatial … Continue reading “Large string and binary values in Fabric Data Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoint for mirrored items (Generally Available)”

Announcing Data Clustering in Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview)

Data Clustering in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, is a game-changing feature designed to supercharge your queries. Whether you are a data engineer, analyst, or IT professional, Data Clustering is here to help you unlock faster insights, optimize resource usage, and maximize the value of your data. What is Data Clustering? Data Clustering in Microsoft Fabric … Continue reading “Announcing Data Clustering in Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview)”

dbt Job in Microsoft Fabric: Ship Trustworthy SQL Models Faster (Preview)

We’re excited to introduce dbt Jobs in Microsoft Fabric—a capability that lets existing dbt users seamlessly integrate their trusted workflows into Fabric’s Data Factory experience. With this integration, data engineers and analysts can author, orchestrate, and operationalize dbt-based transformations natively within Fabric, combining the modular, version-controlled, and testable approach you already know with enterprise-grade governance, … Continue reading “dbt Job in Microsoft Fabric: Ship Trustworthy SQL Models Faster (Preview)”

IDENTITY Columns in Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview)

IDENTITY columns in Fabric Data Warehouse are a feature shaped by direct customer feedback and requests. Across the data community, the need for simple, automatic key generation has been a recurring theme. We are closing that gap, providing you with a tool to streamline your workflow and accelerate analytics capabilities. What Are IDENTITY Columns? Unlike … Continue reading “IDENTITY Columns in Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview)”

Two Years in: How Fabric Redefines the Modernization Path for Synapse Users

Two years ago, we introduced Microsoft Fabric to Azure Synapse users as a bold new direction for analytics—one that promised unification, simplicity, scale. Today, that promise has matured into a complete platform that’s not just ready for enterprises, it’s built for them. To be very clear: Synapse continues to be supported. We will fix bugs, … Continue reading “Two Years in: How Fabric Redefines the Modernization Path for Synapse Users”