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Identity-based predicate filtering for enterprise-scale auditing

The July 2026 release of the on-premises data gateway is version 3000.326. This new version (3000.326) continues our focus on improving gateway manageability, o

When reviewing warehouse usage, customers often start with the same question: which workloads contributed to the consumption I’m seeing in the Fabric Capacity M

Configuring a Data Agent can be challenging. To deliver reliable answers, authors must understand the data model, identify the right tables and relationships, w

If you’ve ever had someone delete the wrong item by accident, this update is for you. Starting August 16, 2026, Fabric will be rolling out enabling Item Recover

Virtual network (VNet) data gateways help organizations connect Microsoft Fabric workloads to data sources that are protected by virtual network boundaries. The

Many business processes rely on custom code that must run repeatedly—whether to validate data, apply business rules, synchronize systems, or generate notificati

Coauthor: Artur Vieira Part one of a series on medallion architecture with Fabric Data Warehouse. Medallion architecture is one of the most common patterns for

Welcome to the second post in our Business Events, Fabric Events, and Azure Events series for Microsoft Fabric. Whether you're new to event-driven architectures

Welcome to the third post in our Business Events, Fabric Events, and Azure Events series for Microsoft Fabric. Whether you're new to event-driven architectures

New research from Microsoft and MIT Technology Review Insights reveals how organizations are building trust in AI agents—starting with structured data workflows

Get a first look at FabCon Europe 2026 in Barcelona, with curated session picks across Microsoft Fabric, SQL, AI, real-time intelligence, and data engineering—p

Microsoft Data Days brings together training, certification pathways, and more—helping you build practical skills and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving field. Th

Microsoft Build 2026 highlights advancements in app development with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, emphasizing a unified data and AI platform for sc

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

Planned Public preview Date: Q4 2026 Fabric feature store is a centralized system that manages the data inputs, called features, that power machine learning mod

Planned Public preview Date: Q4 2026 Quickly identify when and where throttling is occurring across your Eventhouse system. This feature highlights recent throt

Planned Public preview Date: Q3 2026 This feature enables customers to develop or reuse their own Kafka connectors, or open-source Kafka connectors, when no pre

Shipped General availability Date: Q2 2026 Identify how applications like Activator and QuerySet contribute to Eventhouse activity. Analyze query volume and act

Shipped General availability Date: Q3 2026 You can now join data from OneLake shortcuts in update policies. Use this for dimension lookups, such as enriching in

Planned Public preview Date: Q3 2026 Branch workspace admin profile (aka. admin delegation) lets developers use the branch-out experience without needing create

Planned General availability Date: Q4 2026 List slicer with drop down mode and advanced search options.

Shipped General availability Date: Q3 2026 Conditional formatting to be available for series in Power BI visuals. This includes lines, markers, and legends.

Planned General availability Date: Q4 2026 Data Clustering enables faster read performance by allowing users to specify columns for co-locating data on ingestio

Shipped Public preview Date: Q3 2026 Workspace identity auth support for Eventstream Event hub source. Customers can use workspace identity to do the authentica

Planned Public preview Date: Q3 2026 Fabric data engineers today write 80-100+ lines of boilerplate PySpark to ingest CSV and Parquet files into Delta tables -

Planned Public preview Date: Q1 2027 Ability to clone warehouse across workspaces

Planned Public preview Date: Q4 2026 **Release:** Public Preview | **Product area:** Fabric CI/CD**Deployment plan** is a new first-class Fabric workspace item

Planned General availability Date: Q4 2026 Ability to configure the data warehouse retention between 1 to 120 days;

Planned Public preview Date: Q4 2026 Shortcuts in Fabric DW allow users to directly access and query data that is present in internal and external data sources,

Planned General availability Date: Q4 2026 This feature is part of the concurrency control strategy for Fabric DW. File-level write-write conflict detection is

Planned General availability Date: Q3 2026 SQL analytics endpoints of Lakehouses will support large string and binary data using VARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX)

Shipped Public preview Date: Q3 2026 For VNet data gateways, the fixed node setup can be inefficient during high-demand periods. To improve this, we're introduc

Shipped Public preview Date: Q3 2026 We are introducing PostgreSQL as a new data destination for Dataflow Gen2, enabling customers to publish transformed data f

Planned Public preview Date: Q3 2026 Private link allows customers to connect to their SQL DBs via a private endpoint from the customer's virtual network. Works

Shipped General availability Date: Q3 2026 Planning in Microsoft Fabric is a native enterprise planning capability that brings budgeting, forecasting, and scena

Shipped Public preview Date: Q3 2026 We are delivering Outbound Access Protection for Operations Agent in Microsoft Fabric, enabling administrators to enforce w

Shipped Public preview Date: Q2 2026 Fabric Data Warehouse will support the bcp utility and the TDS Bulk Load API, enabling high-performance data ingestion from

Shipped Public preview Date: Q2 2026 Fabric Data Warehouse will introduce string similarity and comparison functions based on Levenshtein and Jaro-Winkler algor

Shipped Public preview Date: Q2 2026 New version of the metadata sync for SQL analytics endpoint built on a new architecture. This delivers,- Data refresh in se

Originally published at https://shai-kr.github.io/data-ninja-ai-lab/blog/2026-08-05-vnet-gateway-autoscaling.html. Private data access is one of those platform

Azure Anomaly Detector and Personalizer retire October 1, 2026: a migration playbook Summary. Azure AI Anomaly Detector and Azure AI Personalizer both retire on

Originally published at Data Ninja AI Lab. Power BI semantic model settings are becoming less of a separate admin page and more of an in-context workflow. That

Data certifications evolve fast, and that’s exactly why choosing the right one feels harder than it should. Microsoft Fabric is accelerating the convergence bet

Originally published at Data Ninja AI Lab. Microsoft Fabric keeps moving toward a more useful idea of governance: define access close to the data, then let more

Originally published at Data Ninja AI Lab. Microsoft Fabric is getting closer to a very practical version of AI-assisted data engineering. The interesting part

Data is one of an organization's most valuable assets, but many businesses still rely on disconnected systems, legacy platforms, and inconsistent data processes

I'm working through the DP-700 (Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate) certification, and the section that made me actually stop and take proper notes wasn't

The latest wave of Microsoft Fabric updates made a strong impression on me. Not because of another feature checkbox on a roadmap, but because it became clear th

Thousands of enterprise data warehouses still run on Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool. Most teams assume moving to Microsoft Fabric is a straightforward T-SQL m

Originally published at Data Ninja AI Lab. Power BI answers are starting to move closer to where decisions already happen. That is the useful part of Fabric IQ

Originally published at Data Ninja AI Lab. Microsoft Fabric just gave sensitivity labels a more interesting job. Most teams think about sensitivity labels as go

The July 2026 release of the on-premises data gateway is version 3000.326. This new version (3000.326) continues our focus on improving gateway manageability, o

When reviewing warehouse usage, customers often start with the same question: which workloads contributed to the consumption I’m seeing in the Fabric Capacity M

Configuring a Data Agent can be challenging. To deliver reliable answers, authors must understand the data model, identify the right tables and relationships, w

If you’ve ever had someone delete the wrong item by accident, this update is for you. Starting August 16, 2026, Fabric will be rolling out enabling Item Recover

Virtual network (VNet) data gateways help organizations connect Microsoft Fabric workloads to data sources that are protected by virtual network boundaries. The

Many business processes rely on custom code that must run repeatedly—whether to validate data, apply business rules, synchronize systems, or generate notificati

Coauthor: Artur Vieira Part one of a series on medallion architecture with Fabric Data Warehouse. Medallion architecture is one of the most common patterns for

Microsoft Fabric is expanding the reach of Microsoft OneLake with two new mirroring capabilities: Mirrored Azure Monitor and Mirrored AWS Glue catalog. These pr

As a data engineer, much of your day goes into moving and shaping data so that someone, somewhere, can ask a question of it. But streaming event data from appli

Nearly a year ago, we announced the integration between Fabric data agent and Copilot in Power BI, allowing users to access a Fabric data agent directly from Co

For years, organizations have invested in data platforms to understand what happened across their business. Dashboards, reports, and KPIs are now table stakes.

The Challenge: Where Can Your Streaming Data Go?You've built a real-time streaming pipeline in Microsoft Fabric. Events flow from Azure Event Hubs into Eventstr

Microsoft Fabric Embed, now in preview, enabling developers to bring interactive Fabric analytics directly into browser-based web applications. Users can explor

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.