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dbt+ Microsoft Fabric: A strategic investment in the modern analytics stack

Modern analytics teams are adopting open, SQL-first data transformation, robust CI/CD and governance, and seamless integration across lakehouse and warehouse platforms. dbt is now the standard for analytics engineering, while Microsoft Fabric unifies data engineering, science, warehousing, and BI in OneLake.

What’s next for Fabric IQ Ontology: The operational context that powers your AI agents (Preview)

If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings.  Since introducing Fabric IQ, we’ve seen growing momentum around how organizations are using …

What’s new with Fabric Activator: more connected and capabilities

In our data-centric society, immediate responses have become a necessity rather than a choice. Fabric Activator for Microsoft Fabric enables organizations to move from passive monitoring to proactive action. By continuously monitoring streaming and event data, Activator helps you to automatically execute actions or send alerts whenever specific data conditions are met, ensuring timely and efficient operations.

Incremental copy gets more flexible: New watermark column types in Copy job in Fabric Data Factory (Generally Available)

Copy job is the go-to solution in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory for simplified data movement across multiple clouds. With native support for bulk copy, incremental copy, and change data capture (CDC) replication, it can handle a wide range of movement scenarios through an intuitive, easy-to-use experience.