Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Building a Custom Sparklens JAR for Microsoft Fabric

Problem Statement In the previous blog on Profiling Microsoft Fabric Spark Notebooks with Sparklens, we covered how to run Sparklens to profile and tune the performance of your spark notebooks in Microsoft Fabric. In that blog, we used a custom Sparklens JAR. The Sparklens JARs available in the Maven Central repo supports only the Spark … Continue reading “Building a Custom Sparklens JAR for Microsoft Fabric”

Building Custom AI Applications with Microsoft Fabric: Implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation for Enhanced Language Models

We are excited to share guidance for how you can use Microsoft Fabric to turn your data into knowledge for Generative AI applications. This guide will walk you through implementing a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system in Microsoft Fabric using Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. By the end, you’ll be more familiar with how to … Continue reading “Building Custom AI Applications with Microsoft Fabric: Implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation for Enhanced Language Models”

Introducing Capacity Pools for Data Engineering and Data Science in Microsoft Fabric

We are excited to announce the Capacity Pools for Data Engineering and Data Science in Microsoft Fabric. As part of the Data Engineering and Science settings in the Admin portal, capacity administrators can create custom pools based on their workload requirements. Optimizing Cloud Spend and Managing Compute Resources In enterprise environments, managing cloud spending and … Continue reading “Introducing Capacity Pools for Data Engineering and Data Science in Microsoft Fabric”

Mastering Enterprise T-SQL ETL/ELT: A Guide with Data Warehouse and Fabric Pipelines

Developing ETLs/ELTs can be a complex process when you add in business logic, large amounts of data, and the high volume of table data that needs to be moved from source to target. This is especially true in analytical workloads involving relational data when there is a need to either fully reload a table or incrementally update a table. Traditionally this is easily completed in a flavor of SQL (or name your favorite relational database). But a question is, how can we execute a mature, dynamic, and scalable ETL/ELT utilizing T-SQL with Microsoft Fabric? The answer is with Fabric Pipelines and Data Warehouse.

Demystifying Data Ingestion in Fabric: Fundamental Components for Ingesting Data into a Fabric Lakehouse using Fabric Data Pipelines

✎ Co-Author – Abhishek Narain Overview Building an effective Lakehouse starts with establishing a robust ingestion layer. Ingestion refers to the process of collecting, importing, and processing raw data from various sources into the data lake. Data ingestion is fundamental to the success of a data lake as it enables the consolidation, exploration, and processing … Continue reading “Demystifying Data Ingestion in Fabric: Fundamental Components for Ingesting Data into a Fabric Lakehouse using Fabric Data Pipelines”