Fabric

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, … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/native-execution-engine-available-at-no-additional-cost/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Native Execution Engine available at no additional cost!”</span></a>

The Share capability for Fabric AI Skill is now in public preview. This feature enables AI Skill creators to share their AI Skill with colleagues, allowing them to consume the AI Skill and gain valuable insights from the data. How Sharing WorksOnce you have created and validated the effectiveness of your AI Skill, you can … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-the-share-feature-for-fabric-ai-skill/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing Public Preview of the “Share” Feature for Fabric AI Skill”</span></a>

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Learn about Direct Lake storage mode in Microsoft Fabric and when you should use it.

A new way to authenticate and authorize your Fabric applications. You can now use service principal to access Fabric APIs. Service principal is a security identity that you can create in Entra and assign permissions to it in Entra and other Microsoft services, such as Microsoft Fabric.  With service principal you can automate your Fabric processes … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-service-principal-support-for-fabric-apis/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing Service Principal support for Fabric APIs “</span></a>

In this article, I introduce semantic-link-labs, a library based upon semantic-link that you can use in Microsoft Fabric notebooks to help you build, use, manage, and audit not only semantic models, but also reports and other items or parts of Fabric.

Learn about tags in Microsoft Fabric.

Introducing tags – now in public preview. When it comes to data discovery and management, the modern data estate presents a set of daunting challenges for organizations and admins. An explosion in data sources coupled with rapid movement to the cloud is accommodating admins of all type, as well as CDOs and data stewards busy. … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tag-your-data-to-enrich-item-curation-and-discovery/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Tag your data to enrich item curation and discovery”</span></a>

Incremental Refresh in Dataflow Gen2 is now in public preview! This powerful feature is designed to optimize your data processing by ensuring that only the data that has changed since the last refresh is updated. This means faster dataflows and more efficient resource usage. Key Features of Incremental Refresh Incremental refresh in Dataflow Gen2 is … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-incremental-refresh-in-dataflows-gen2/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing Public Preview: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow Gen2”</span></a>

Last week was such an exciting week for Fabric during the Fabric Community Conference Europe, filled with several product announcements and sneak previews of upcoming new features. Thanks to all of you who participated in the conference, either in person or by being part of the many virtual conversations through blogs, Community forums, social media … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/recap-of-data-factory-announcements-at-fabric-community-conference-europe/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Recap of Data Factory Announcements at Fabric Community Conference Europe”</span></a>

Learn how Semantic Link feature will transform the world of analytics we know today!

Learn how Semantic Link feature will transform the world of analytics we know today!

I show you how to use a Notebook in Microsoft Fabric to download and save the Scanner API information to a JSON file in your Lakehouse

Develop strategies about how data, analytics, and BI content is owned and managed to drive strong and successful adoption of Microsoft Fabric.

Learn how to configure an AI skill on the AdventureWorks dataset.

Learn how to create an AI skill.

Additional authors: Alex van Grootel At Build, we announced AI skills – a new capability in Fabric that allows you to build your own generative AI experiences. We believe that generative AI enables a fundamentally new way for you to interact with your data, dramatically increasing the amount of data-driven decision-making in organizations across the … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-ai-skills-in-microsoft-fabric-now-in-public-preview/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Introducing AI Skills in Microsoft Fabric: Now in Public Preview”</span></a>

GraphQL is a query language specification that allows users to define the structure of data to be returned from an API.

How you can automate the updating of your Incremental Refresh Policy for your Power BI Semantic Model using a Microsoft Fabric Notebook

We are excited to share that the new modern get data experience of data pipeline now supports copying to Lakehouse and Datawarehouse across different workspaces with an extremely intuitive experience. When you are building a medallion architecture, you can easily leverage Data Pipeline to copy your data into Bronze Lakehouse/Warehouse across different workspaces. This feature … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/easily-move-your-data-across-workspaces-using-modern-get-data-of-fabric-data-pipeline/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Easily Move Your Data Across Workspaces Using Modern Get Data of Fabric Data Pipeline”</span></a>

Recently, I architected a solution for a client for their Microsoft Fabric data platform. The client works with Dynamics Finance & Operations as one of their main ERP system. Fabric offers easy…

This article describes the available REST APIs for pipelines in Data Factory for Microsoft Fabric.

Weaving DataOps into Microsoft Fabric – Logging Test Results to OneLake

Yesterday, Microsoft released a new option called “branch-out” that allows you to easily setup a new branch from an existing Fabric workspace. Obviously, this was already possible but i…

Welcome to the June 2024 update. Here are a few, select highlights of the many we have for Fabric. Fabric Spark connector for Fabric Data Warehouse in Spark runtime is now available. Query activity, a one-stop view of your running and completed SQL queries for workspace admins is being announced. You can now run queries … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-fabric-june-2024-update/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Microsoft Fabric June 2024 Update”</span></a>

This blog demonstrates how to Implement a Hybrid Type 1 and 2 Slowly Changing dimension tables using Pyspark in a Microsoft Fabric notebook

We are excited to announce new and exciting updates to Semantic Link over the last a few months:  Semantic Link is preinstalled in the default runtime  At the Fabric Conference in March 2024, we announced that Semantic Link was generally available. We have now included Semantic Link in the default runtime by default. If you … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/semantic-link-updates-june-2024/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Semantic Link Updates June 2024 “</span></a>

I created this report to summarize the release status for all Fabric features that are documented in the Microsoft Fabric Roadmap. The information on this report is collected and updated frequently…

This post will explore Microsoft Fabric REST APIs for seamless automation. Following, let’s review through some of the options for API integration in Fabric, unravelling the threads of development, deployment, governance, and beyond in this comprehensive series, this is Part One. Some additional Material to review: Fabric API quickstart – Microsoft Fabric REST APIs | … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/fabric-change-the-game-revolutionizing-fabric-with-rest-api-part-1/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Fabric Change the Game: Revolutionizing Fabric with REST API, Part 1”</span></a>