Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Manage environment configuration in Fabric User data functions with variable libraries 

Data Engineers working with Microsoft Fabric often need to manage environment-specific configurations, including the modification of Lakehouse names, file paths, or schema names for development, testing, and production environments. In this scenario, you would want to avoid hard coding this information. This is where variable libraries in Fabric can help data engineers manage their environment configuration when working with Fabric User data … Continue reading “Manage environment configuration in Fabric User data functions with variable libraries “

dbt Job in Microsoft Fabric: Ship Trustworthy SQL Models Faster (Preview)

We’re excited to introduce dbt Jobs in Microsoft Fabric—a capability that lets existing dbt users seamlessly integrate their trusted workflows into Fabric’s Data Factory experience. With this integration, data engineers and analysts can author, orchestrate, and operationalize dbt-based transformations natively within Fabric, combining the modular, version-controlled, and testable approach you already know with enterprise-grade governance, … Continue reading “dbt Job in Microsoft Fabric: Ship Trustworthy SQL Models Faster (Preview)”

What’s new in Fabric User Data Functions? Ignite 2025 edition

User Data Functions has been hard at work to bring you the functionality you need to tie together your Fabric architectures and create robust data solutions. This blog post will introduce the latest features in Fabric User Data Functions for Microsoft Ignite 2025. The following are the features and integrations that are now available in … Continue reading “What’s new in Fabric User Data Functions? Ignite 2025 edition”

Mirroring: SQL Server, PostgresSQL, Cosmos DB, Updates to Snowflake Mirroring and the Mirroring Ecosystem (Generally Available)

Data silos slow innovation. Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric eliminates those barriers by bringing operational data into OneLake without complex ETL pipelines. The result, near real-time AI and BI insights, unified governance, and a single source of truth across your organization – all at no cost!  What’s Generally Available and why it matters:  SQL Server 2016-2022 & SQL Server 2025 (Generally Available)  Native mirroring for SQL Server … Continue reading “Mirroring: SQL Server, PostgresSQL, Cosmos DB, Updates to Snowflake Mirroring and the Mirroring Ecosystem (Generally Available)”

Two Years in: How Fabric Redefines the Modernization Path for Synapse Users

Two years ago, we introduced Microsoft Fabric to Azure Synapse users as a bold new direction for analytics—one that promised unification, simplicity, scale. Today, that promise has matured into a complete platform that’s not just ready for enterprises, it’s built for them. To be very clear: Synapse continues to be supported. We will fix bugs, … Continue reading “Two Years in: How Fabric Redefines the Modernization Path for Synapse Users”