Agentic apps are moving quickly from prototypes to real workloads. But once you go beyond a proof of concept (POC), the hard part isn’t getting an agent to respond; it’s knowing what the agent did, whether it was safe and correct, and how it’s impacting the business. Let’s explore what it takes to operationalize agentic … Continue reading “Operationalizing Agentic Applications with Microsoft Fabric”
Most enterprise data lives in free text – tickets, contracts, feedback, clinical notes, and more. It holds critical information but doesn’t fit into the structured tables that pipelines expect. Traditionally, extracting structure meant rule-based parsers that break with every format to change, or custom NLP models that take weeks to build. LLMs opened new possibilities, … Continue reading “ExtractLabel: Schema-driven unstructured data extraction with Fabric AI Functions”
Welcome to the February 2026 Microsoft Fabric update! This month brings a wide range of enhancements across the Fabric platform—from improvements to the OneLake Catalog and developer experiences, to meaningful updates in Data Engineering, Data Factory, Real‑Time Intelligence, and more. Whether you’re building, operating, or scaling solutions in Fabric, there’s plenty here to explore. And … Continue reading “Fabric February 2026 Feature Summary”
If you’ve been on X (formerly Twitter) the past two weeks, you’ve probably seen or at least felt the shockwaves. Matt Shumer, CEO of HyperWrite and co-founder of OthersideAI, published a 5,000-word essay titled “Something Big Is Happening” that has now been viewed over 73 million times. In it, he compares this moment in AI … Continue reading “Something big IS happening—is your data platform ready?”
You like writing T-SQL. You’re good at it. Or maybe you’re not. But let’s be honest—there are days when you’d rather not write that same GROUP BY clause for the hundredth time or spend twenty minutes deciphering a stored procedure someone wrote in 2014. Good news: AI-powered assistants are now available wherever you write SQL … Continue reading “No more excuses: AI-powered assistants are in SSMS, VS Code, and Fabric”
