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Welcome to the April 2026 edition of the Fabric Influencers Spotlight, a recurring monthly post here to shine a bright light on the places on the internet where

Nested folders, shortcut transformations, subfolder processing, OneLake, shortcuts, Lakehouse Data lakes rarely come in flat structures. In practice, data is or

As enterprises adopt OneLake as their unified data lake for analytics, securing how external services access data in OneLake becomes increasingly important—espe

Machine learning teams need more than a great model — they need a reliable way to move that model from experimentation to production. Cross-workspace logging fo

Coauthor: Nikola Zagorac In today’s data-driven world, the ability to capture and act on data changes in real time is a competitive necessity. From financial se

Co-author: Abhishek Narain Workspace outbound access protection (OAP) is widely accessible for Data Factory workloads—including Pipelines, Copy Job, and Dataflo

Empowering customers with enhanced security and control. This milestone marks a significant step forward in empowering our customers to take control of their da

Something fundamental is changing in how developers interact with data platforms. Not a feature update, not a UI refresh, but a shift in the interface itself.

In our previous post, Operationalizing Agentic Applications with Microsoft Fabric, we focused on a core challenge teams encounter once an agentic application mo

Coordinating dbt runs with upstream ingestion and downstream consumption often requires complex solutions and different tools. You can now add a dbt job activit

From technical sessions to hallway conversations, FabCon and SQLCon 2026 showcased the momentum behind the Fabric and SQL ecosystems. The post Highlights from F

We're bring attendees together to share real experiences and solve challenges side-by-side. Only together can we move into meaningful results. The post FabCon a

Built on a consistent Microsoft SQL foundation from on premises to the cloud, Azure SQL brings AI capabilities directly into your database experience. The post

We're launching a new podcast called "The Shift," which does exactly that. Grounded in questions we heard from you after Ignite news, we're releasing eight epis

The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) is returning stateside in just a few weeks, taking place at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Mar

FabCon and SQLCon will be one of the year’s largest gatherings of data professionals from around the world, bringing together tech enthusiasts, innovators, and

Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025, which we view as a strong validation of our strategy and ex

Today, I’m thrilled to announce the next generation of Microsoft’s databases: SQL Server 2025, Azure Document DB, Azure Horizon DB, and Fabric Databases, each r

We are highlighting the new zero-ETL, zero-copy sources in OneLake, deeper interoperability between OneLake and Microsoft Foundry, and new tools to help admins.

For nearly a decade, Microsoft and Databricks have closely partnered with the goal of empowering organizations to unlock the value of their data. The post Micro

Welcome to the Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary and welcome to FabCon! As we kick off FabCon, this update captures the momentum we re seeing across the Fabric

Welcome to the February 2026 Microsoft Fabric update! This month brings a wide range of enhancements across the Fabric platform from improvements to the OneLake

If you ve been trying to keep up with everything shipping in Microsoft Fabric, this January 2026 round-up is for you covering the biggest updates across the pla

The November 2025 Fabric release introduces several major updates, including the general availability of SQL database, Cosmos DB, and enhanced mirroring support

Planned General availability Date: 2026-09-30 The MongoDB CDC connector for Eventstream captures database changes from any MongoDB deployment, including MongoDB

Planned General availability Date: 2026-09-30 Private Link enables secure, private connectivity between your virtual network and Microsoft Fabric, eliminating e

Planned Public preview Date: 2026-05-02 DacFx onboarding in the Fabric Web editor enables seamless Git integration and supports deployment pipelines for Fabric

Shipped General availability Date: 2026-06-30 To improve clarity and task completion in Real Time hub, we're streamlining the left navigation. Users have report

Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-04-11 Resource Links let you attach resources to the entity types they describe, so insights live alongside the data model tha

Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-20 This feature offers a simple and secure way to restrict OneLake access to only your application's Azure resources, while

Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-16 Item soft-delete and recovery offer a secure and efficient way to manage deleted items. When an item is deleted, it is m

Planned General availability Date: 2026-09-30 We're expanding scalar user-defined functions with new capabilities, including INLINE = AUTO, improved error messa

Planned Public preview Date: 2026-06-30 The OneLake catalog integration in Excel as part of modern Get Data unlocks seamless connectivity to Fabric data, empowe

Planned Public preview Date: 2026-06-30 We're expanding the capabilities of scalar user-defined functions. This update unlocks new scenarios for **computation**

Planned Public preview Date: 2026-06-01 Migration Assistant for Fabric Data Warehouse will support SQL database project file along with DACPAC file format to mi

Planned General availability Date: 2026-05-29 Multi Lakehouse support in Lineage enables users to visualize and manage dependencies of Materialized Lake Views (

Planned Public preview Date: 2026-05-21 With the upcoming enhancements to Shortcut Transformations, you'll be able to fully customize how you bring in data from

Planned General availability Date: 2026-05-14 The Eventhouse endpoint is a powerful feature in Microsoft Fabric that enables users to query tables with exceptio

Planned Public preview Date: 2026-04-20 You will soon be able to bring your Excel data directly into Fabric Lakehouse Delta tables without extra steps. This fea

Shipped General availability Date: 2025-09-30 The Migration Assistant for Data Warehouse is a built-in tool in Microsoft Fabric that helps organizations migrate

Planned Public preview Date: 2026-06-30 Modules and files stored in the Notebook Resource folder can now be committed to Git and published through Deployment Pi

Planned Public preview Date: 2026-06-16 Python Notebooks now integrate with Environments, enabling users to upload and use custom libraries and packages.

Planned Public preview Date: 2026-05-15 Workspace admins responsible for safeguarding organizational data will be able to leverage Outbound Access Control (OAP)

Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-31 Fabric Data Agent's support for KQL UDFs enables richer, more optimized reasoning over Eventhouse and KQL-backed data so

Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-31 Fabric Data Agent's support for External Tables allows data agent users to include data that lives outside Eventhouse wh

Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-31 The Fabric Graph is introduced as a new structured data source in the Fabric Data Agent, enabling the agent to reason ov

Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-27 The new Notebook Copilot experience is Fabric-context aware, fast, and agentic--able to reason over your workspace and w

Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-20 The new Fabric Notebook agent mode, available in the GitHub Copilot panel in VS Code, enables users to leverage GitHub C

Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-06 This new lightweight capability, available in the environment, provides an agile option to install libraries and package

This article examines Microsoft Fabric not only as a technology platform but also as a comprehensive architecture introducing semantic discipline and a new orde

Running data functions at large organisations might look like one set of tools for ingestion, another for storage, something else for transformation, a separate

In the fast paced world of data management, organizations often find themselves locked into a single cloud provider, chasing the illusion of simplicity. This ch

Enterprises today grapple with fragmented data landscapes that slow decision making and inflate costs. Siloed tools for integration, warehousing, and analytics

Core Microsoft Fabric Concepts 1. Tenant A Fabric tenant is a dedicated, organization-wide container provided by Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly

Microsoft Fabric has been making waves for two years now, and after diving deep with more than 6 months of hands-on experience, I’ve got some thoughts. Is it th

Deep dive into implementing real-time analytics with Microsoft Fabric, exploring advanced patterns and practical solutions for modern data challenges. The lands

Building near real-time reports and analytics with Fabric’s Lakehouse, Spark, and Power BI. OmniSync: A Real-World Architecture for Syncing Salesforce, D365, an

Microsoft Fabric allows data engineers to mirror databases such as Azure SQL or Cosmos DB directly into Fabric for real-time analytics. However, teams working w

Ingesting API data to Microsoft Fabric with low-code Dataflows: A Practical Example using the Strava API Working with API data is often a task reserved for pro-

4 ways to access data from Microsoft Fabric OneLake in Dataverse / Power Platform solutions I have written about accessing Dataverse Data from Microsoft Fabric,

5 ways to get your Dataverse Data into Microsoft Fabric / OneLake Microsoft Fabric is top of mind everywhere, and its promises for improving the analytic capabi

After three years of distributed teams, the evidence is clear: the companies thriving aren't the ones with the best video calls — they're the ones that learned to write things down.

Template literal types, const type parameters, and satisfies — these aren't just language features. They're a fundamentally different way to think about type safety at the boundaries of your system.

Most design systems break not because of bad components, but because of bad governance. Here's the framework we use to keep ours coherent across 12 product teams.

We integrated an LLM-powered code reviewer into our CI pipeline. It caught real bugs, but the most surprising impact was on junior developer confidence.

We hired for credentials instead of curiosity. By the time we realized our mistake, we'd burned through 6 months of runway and had to rebuild the team from scratch.

Before reaching for a new database, we exhausted what Postgres could do. Partitioning, connection pooling, and smart indexing got us further than most people think possible.

I wasn't exhausted or disengaged. I was performing well and shipping on time. But I'd stopped caring about the craft — and that was the warning sign I missed.

Accessibility isn't a checkbox on your sprint board. It's a design constraint — like responsive layout or performance budgets — that should be present from day one.