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We are thrilled to unveil the next evolution in big data exploration of activity and high granularity data: Copilot for Real-Time Intelligence is now in preview! For those who are already fans of KQL or newcomers exploring its potential, Copilot can help you get started, and navigate data with ease. With Copilot for Real-Time Intelligence, … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/copilot-for-kql-in-real-time-intelligence/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Copilot for Real-Time Intelligence”</span></a>

Data in real-time is generally classified into stream event and discrete event (or notification event). Streaming event sources The enhanced Eventstream offers an intuitive way to connect external stream event sources with a ready-to-use setup, supporting well-known cloud services such as Google Cloud and Amazon Kinesis; as well as database change data capture (CDC) streams, … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/acquiring-real-time-data-from-new-sources-with-enhanced-eventstream/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Acquiring Real-Time Data from New Sources with Enhanced Eventstream”</span></a>

We are pleased to announce a slew of new enhancements in Fabric Eventstream to improve your development experience of building a data streaming application. Our latest update introduces three new features: Edit and Live modes, Default and Derived Streams, and Smart Routing. These additions are set to revolutionize the way developers manage, process, and analyze … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-enhanced-capabilities-in-eventstream-derived-streams-edit-modes-and-smart-routing/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Introducing Enhanced Capabilities in Eventstream: Derived Streams, Edit modes, and Smart Routing”</span></a>

As more and more enterprises store and analyze data on the cloud, the need for securing sensitive data has become paramount. Microsoft Fabric offers security at different levels – for instance, access control using workspace roles/permissions and granular security at the data layer. In addition to these, Network security provides a critical level of isolation, … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-fabric-private-links-trusted-workspace-access-and-managed-private-endpoints/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing General Availability of Fabric Private Links, Trusted Workspace Access, and Managed Private Endpoints”</span></a>

We’re excited to announce Query activity, a one-stop view of all running and historical T-SQL queries for workspace admins! We know monitoring T-SQL queries is essential for maintaining the performance and efficiency of the warehouse to ensure that queries aren’t taking longer than expected to execute and are completed successfully. This feature enhances your ability … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/query-activity-a-one-stop-view-to-monitor-your-running-and-completed-sql-queries/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Query activity: A one-stop view to monitor your running and completed T-SQL queries”</span></a>

Using Phi3 mini in Fabric notebook.

Today, we’re tackling a topic you probably haven’t seen before: how to forecast and make predictions in Microsoft Fabric using Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). While most…

The new Excel and CSV connectors in Fabric allows you to connect to your favorite files and create Power BI reports in a few clicks.

In this article, I illustrate an example of how an enterprise BI team takes their model from Power BI to Fabric.

In this article, I illustrate an example of how a departmental analytics team goes from using a semantic model in Power BI to Fabric.

In this article, I illustrate one example of how a team goes from using a semantic model in Power BI (Pro) to Fabric.

In this article, I explain what it means for your current and future semantic models if you choose for Fabric. This post isn’t meant to market Fabric to you; it’s purely informative.

Last week, I was attending and speaking at the first ever Fabric February, a great in-person conference dedicated to Microsoft Fabric taking place in Oslo – Norway. (I recommend attending fut…

We are excited to announce that the VNet Data Gateway is now GA! Read the blog to find out more and get started using the VNet Data Gateway to secure your production workloads.

As part of our continued tooling improvements, we have enhanced the experience for creating Direct Lake semantic models in Microsoft Fabric. This applies to semantic models created by clicking the New semantic model button from the Lakehouse.

Last year was a remarkable one for the Power BI community. We launched Microsoft Fabric, an end-to-end analytics platform that brings together data preparation, data warehousing, data engineering, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence in one unified SaaS foundation with one copy of data stored in OneLake. We also launched Power BI Copilot, making it easier to find insights and build reports using natural language. And our community of over 2 million members continued to engage on our forums, post ideas, join user groups, helping one another in their data journeys.

One of my older posts explains how to enable Copilot on Fabric and how to use Copilot to generate Power BI reports. In this post, I aim to explain yet another use case for Copilot that can help us to make a better and more useful semantic model in Power BI using synonyms. In an … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric: Use Copilot to Generate Data Model Synonyms

Game changer! How many times did you hear these words? But, with the latest OneLake integration for semantic models feature in Fabric, we may really change the way of engineering data workloads

Learn about the importance of business alignment with organizational goals.

Great Expectations Open Source(GX OSS) is a popular Python library that provides a framework for describing and validating the acceptable state of data. It helps data engineers and data scientists ensure that their data meets specific quality standards before using it for analysis, machine learning, or other data-driven tasks. With the recent integration of Microsoft … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/semantic-link-data-validation-using-great-expectations/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Semantic Link: Data validation using Great Expectations”</span></a>

Learn about effective change management for Microsoft Fabric.

Use Microsoft Spark Utilities, a built-in package, to work with file systems, get environment variables, chain notebooks together, and work with secrets.

This blog post show I created a Power BI report which shows the Microsoft Fabric support page, after which I subscribe to see the daily status.

On July 5th, we announced the ability to clone data warehouse tables within Microsoft Fabric as of current point in time. The ability to clone tables is a powerful technique that not only empowers businesses to streamline reporting and analytics but also helps expedite development and testing processes.  While data warehouses constantly evolve, it is often … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/time-travelling-through-data-the-magic-of-table-clones/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Time-Travelling through data: The Magic of Table clones”</span></a>

An introduction to deployment pipelines the Fabric Application lifecycle management (ALM) tool

Learn about the best practices for Git integration and deployment pipelines in the Microsoft Fabric lifecycle management tool.

Learn how to view the lineage of Fabric items.

We have some very exciting news to share with you today! We are thrilled to announce that we have just launched the public preview of Direct Lake mode for Power BI datasets in Fabric! Fabric is taking a bold bet on open data formats in OneLake.

Microsoft Fabric is a new platform designed to bring together the data and analytics features of Microsoft products like Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics into a single SaaS product. Its goal is to provide a smooth and consistent experience for both data professionals and business users, covering everything from data entry to gaining insights. … Continue reading Unveiling Microsoft Fabric’s Impact on Power BI Developers and Analysts

It’s a question I see popping up every now and then. Is Microsoft Fabric just a rebranding of existing Azure services like Synapse, Data Factory, Event Hub, Stream Analytics, etc.? Is it something more? Or is it something entirely new? I hate clickbait titles as much as you do. So, before we dive in, let me answer the question right away. No, Fabric is not just a rebranding. I would not even describe Fabric as an evolution (as Microsoft often does), but rather as a revolution! Now, let’s find out why.