Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

It’s Time! Announcing The Microsoft SQL Community Conference

SQL is having its moment. From on-premises data centers to Azure Cloud Services to Microsoft Fabric, SQL has evolved into something far more powerful than many realize and it deserves the focused attention of a big stage.  That’s why I’m thrilled to announce SQLCon, a dedicated conference for database developers, database administrators, and database engineers. Co-located with FabCon for an unprecedented week of deep technical content … Continue reading “It’s Time! Announcing The Microsoft SQL Community Conference”

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric Spark (Generally Available)

Additional authors – Madhu Bhowal, Ashit Gosalia, Aniket Adnaik, Kevin Cheung, Sarah Battersby, Michael Park Esri is recognized as the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, location intelligence, and mapping, primarily through its flagship software, ArcGIS. Esri empowers businesses, governments, and communities to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges through spatial analysis. … Continue reading “ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric Spark (Generally Available)”

Fabric October 2025 Feature Summary

This month’s update delivers key advancements across Microsoft Fabric, including enhanced security with Outbound Access Protection and Workspace-Level Private Link, smarter data engineering features like Adaptive Target File Size, and new integrations such as Data Agent in Lakehouse. Together, these improvements streamline workflows and strengthen data governance for users. Contents Events & Announcements Fabric Data … Continue reading “Fabric October 2025 Feature Summary”

Securely Accessing External and On-Premises Data Sources with Fabric Data Engineering Workloads

Managed Private Endpoints support for connecting to Private Link Services is now available in Microsoft Fabric (Public REST APIs). This has been one of the top requests from our customers and the community: the ability to securely connect Fabric Spark compute to on-premises and network-isolated data sources using the option to allowlist Fully Qualified Domain … Continue reading “Securely Accessing External and On-Premises Data Sources with Fabric Data Engineering Workloads”

From Files to Delta Tables—Parquet & JSON data ingestion simplified with Shortcut Transformations

Picture this: A data engineer at a global enterprise starts the day with a familiar challenge – ‘Why does ingesting Parquet and JSON files always feel like a battle?’. Data engineers are dealing with millions of records stored in compressed Parquet files and deeply nested JSON logs. Every schema change means hours of debugging. Every … Continue reading “From Files to Delta Tables—Parquet & JSON data ingestion simplified with Shortcut Transformations”