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Announcing public preview of VARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX) types in Fabric Data Warehouse

Fabric Data Warehouse is a modern data warehouse optimized for analytical data models, primarily focused on the smaller numeric, datetime, and string types that are suitable for analytics. For the textual data, Fabric DW supports the VARCHAR type that can store up to 8KB of text, which is suitable for most of the textual values …

APIs for Managed Private Endpoint are now available

Managed private endpoints allow Fabric experiences to securely access data sources without exposing them to the public network or requiring complex network configurations. We announced General Availability for Managed Private Endpoint in Fabric in May of this year. Learn more here: Announcing General Availability of Fabric Private Links, Trusted Workspace Access, and Managed Private Endpoints. …

New Features and Enhancements for Virtual Network Data Gateway

We’re excited to announce several powerful updates to the Virtual Network (VNET) Data Gateway, designed to further enhance performance and improve the overall user experience. These new features allow users to better manage increasing workloads, perform complex data transformations, and simplify log management. Expanded Cluster Size from 5 to 7 One of the key improvements …

Native Execution Engine available at no additional cost!

We’re thrilled to announce that the Native Execution Engine is now available at no additional cost, unlocking next-level performance and efficiency for your workloads. What’s New?  The Native Execution Engine now supports Fabric Runtime 1.3, which includes Apache Spark 3.5 and Delta Lake 3.2. This upgrade enhances Microsoft Fabric’s Data Engineering and Data Science workflows, …