Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Faster data processing with Native Execution Engines in Microsoft Fabric Runtime 1.3: efficient memory management explained

Accelerating data processing at scale demands far more than just raw compute power. As the complexity and volume of data workloads grow, every layer of the execution pipeline—especially memory management—plays a critical role in determining overall performance. We’ve introduced unique changes how Spark handles memory with the Native Execution Engine for Fabric Spark, reducing performance … Continue reading “Faster data processing with Native Execution Engines in Microsoft Fabric Runtime 1.3: efficient memory management explained”

Introducing Fabric Copilot capacity: Democratizing AI usage in Microsoft Fabric

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Fabric Copilot capacity, a new billing feature designed to enhance your experience with Microsoft Fabric. This new capability allows you to leverage the full potential of AI in your organization by simplifying the ability to enable access to Copilot within Fabric. What is a Fabric Copilot capacity? … Continue reading “Introducing Fabric Copilot capacity: Democratizing AI usage in Microsoft Fabric”

Enhancing data quality with Copilot for Data Factory

In today’s world, cleaning and transforming data is incredibly important. Clean data means removing errors, duplicates, and irrelevant information to ensure its correct and complete, making the data more trustworthy for analysis. Transforming data means changing it into a format that is easy to use and analyze. Together, these steps improve data quality, leading to … Continue reading “Enhancing data quality with Copilot for Data Factory”

Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Google Cloud Storage bucket

This guide will cover how to create a OneLake shortcut to a VPC-protected Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket. Why use the on-premises-data gateway? Today, organizations are protecting data by leveraging network security capabilities like virtual networks, firewalls and virtual protected clouds (VPC). To access data securely and to provide a bridge between protected environments and … Continue reading “Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Google Cloud Storage bucket”

Efficiently monitor SQL Database usage and consumption in Microsoft Fabric by using capacity metrics app

In November 2024, Microsoft Fabric unveiled the preview of SQL Database in Fabric at Ignite – an exciting milestone that marked a new chapter for SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Fabric, as operational and analytical workloads were brought together in one unified platform. Learn more in the announcement: Announcing SQL database in Microsoft Fabric (Preview). … Continue reading “Efficiently monitor SQL Database usage and consumption in Microsoft Fabric by using capacity metrics app”