Have you ever tried to understand what’s stored in your Fabric items? Would you even know where to begin? I had 92,000 UK property transactions sitting in an open mirrored database. Rather than spending hours sorting through documentation, I just asked my AI agent: “Document what’s in the House Price Open Mirror in my UK … Continue reading “Give your AI agent the keys to OneLake: OneLake MCP (Generally Available)”
As the Data Integration Customer Advisory Team (CAT) lead, I spent a lot of time talking to customers at the recent FabCon/SQLCon about Fabric Data Factory, and I came away with a clear picture of what’s on customers’ minds when it comes to the future of data integration. Many of the same questions came up … Continue reading “Answers to common questions about Fabric Data Factory”
Modern, real-time analytics workloads are rarely flat. In Eventhouse, some of the customers consistently told us that their usage follows clear, predictable patterns: heavy ingestion during business hours, lighter query traffic overnight, quiet weekends, and short but critical pipeline windows. Previously, customers had to choose a single minimum capacity value for the entire week, paying … Continue reading “Capacity Scheduler: Smarter capacity control for Eventhouse (Preview)”
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 … Continue reading “ALTER TABLE inside explicit transactions in Fabric Data Warehouse (Generally Available)”
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 … Continue reading “Associated identities for items (Preview)”
