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Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview of the OneLake Catalog Search REST API plus MCP and Fabric CLI support, letting developers search Fabric items across workspaces by metadata and use the returned identifiers in scripts, internal tools, and agent-driven workflows.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Fabric SQL developers can move from Azure Data Studio to VS Code, keeping SQL Database Projects and adopting a Git-based workflow with pull requests, schema compare, publish script previews, and optional GitHub Copilot assistance in the MSSQL extension.
Connie Xu explains how Microsoft Fabric pipelines are shifting from classic ETL into end-to-end workflow orchestration, including long-running processes, human approvals, and clearer monitoring for both technical and business stakeholders.
Katie Murray summarizes the April 2026 Microsoft Fabric updates across data engineering, data science, warehousing, and real-time analytics, including VS Code workspace management, notebook retry policies, MLflow cross-workspace logging, new warehouse ingestion options, and Eventstream/Eventhouse improvements like observability, MCP access, and mTLS with Azure Key Vault.
Anasheh Boisvert introduces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric that adds one-toggle observability for Eventstreams via Workspace Monitoring, automatically creating monitoring tables in an Eventhouse so you can query health, performance, and error metrics with KQL.
Vaibhav Shirvastava announces general availability of the SQL operator in Microsoft Fabric Eventstreams, a code-first way to transform and route streaming data. The post highlights multi-destination fan-out, built-in testing for transformations, and event-time processing controls for late and out-of-order events.
Matthew Hicks announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric that mirrors Dremio-managed Apache Iceberg tables into OneLake using a zero-copy approach, so teams can query and use the data across Fabric workloads without duplicating data or building ETL pipelines.
preshah announces general availability of nested folder support for Microsoft Fabric shortcut transformations, enabling recursive processing of hierarchical data lake folders in OneLake and turning structured files into Delta tables without building separate transforms per subdirectory.
HARMEETGILL announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric that lets workspace admins secure OneLake inbound access using Azure resource identities instead of IP allowlists, and explains how it works alongside Private Link and IP firewall rules.
ruxu announces general availability of cross-workspace logging for MLflow in Microsoft Fabric, explaining how to log experiments and registered models into a target workspace using standard MLflow APIs. It also covers enterprise network requirements like Outbound Access Protection (OAP) and using managed private endpoints for secure cross-workspace traffic.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview of Customer-Managed Keys (CMK) for Fabric Eventhouse, letting customers manage their own encryption keys to meet compliance and regulatory requirements and add an extra layer of protection for data stored in Eventhouse.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI assistants and agents (including GitHub Copilot and Copilot Studio) to discover and operate Microsoft Fabric via new Local (GA) and Remote (preview) MCP servers, covering OneLake operations, API-grounded code generation, and security controls like Entra ID, RBAC, and audit logs.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains two pragmatic updates to a Fabric-based agentic app reference implementation: script-driven deployment using Microsoft Fabric REST APIs and an optional read-only Fabric Data Agent for governed data Q&A, aimed at safer, more repeatable production operations.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a Preview feature that adds a dbt job activity to Microsoft Fabric pipelines, letting teams orchestrate dbt transformations with pipeline dependencies, parameters, notifications, and run monitoring in one place.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Microsoft Fabric Eventstream (Real-Time Intelligence) handles inbound and outbound connectivity and how to pick between managed private endpoints, tenant/workspace private links, and streaming connector VNet injection to secure streaming sources in private networks.
Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces the generally available OneLake MCP tools, showing how an AI agent can discover Fabric items, inspect schemas, map OneLake storage, and assess mirrored-database health through a single natural-language conversation (no code or portal clicks).
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains what customers are asking about Fabric Data Factory vs Azure Data Factory (ADF): when to migrate, how mature it is, and what new capabilities you gain—like Mirroring to OneLake, Copy Jobs with CDC, Dataflows Gen2, Copilot assistance, and managed Airflow/dbt execution.
The Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces Capacity Scheduler (preview) for Eventhouse, explaining how teams can schedule minimum capacity across the week to better match predictable real-time analytics patterns while keeping autoscale enabled.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Fabric’s “Analyze data with” entry points are being unified across Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Eventhouse (Preview), embedding Eventhouse Endpoint alongside SQL Endpoint and Notebooks to make analysis more discoverable and consistent.
Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces (in preview) how Eventhouse in Microsoft Fabric unifies real-time analytics with anomaly detection, data agent integration, SQL endpoints, and notebooks—aiming to move teams from live event signals to investigation and action without duplicating data or stitching multiple tools.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces the general availability of OneLake File Explorer, a Windows File Explorer integration that lets teams drag and drop local files into OneLake so they can be used immediately in Microsoft Fabric pipelines, notebooks, semantic models, and downstream analytics workflows.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces that Fabric Data Warehouse now supports running certain ALTER TABLE operations inside explicit transactions, enabling atomic schema changes with automatic rollback for safer deployments.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces (preview) full Azure SQL Database collation support for SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric, explaining what collations are and how to set them during database creation via the Fabric REST API and other deployment methods.
Microsoft Fabric Blog (with coauthor Arindam Chatterjee) summarizes Q1 2026 updates for Fabric Eventstreams, covering new connectors (DeltaFlow, MQTT v3, Anomaly Detection), tighter Spark Structured Streaming/Notebook integration, and enterprise networking and security features like private network ingestion and Key Vault-backed custom CA + mTLS.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview feature that lets you associate a user, service principal, or managed identity with Fabric items (currently Lakehouses and Eventstreams) so those items no longer depend on the original owner’s credentials.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces the general availability of Shortcut transformations, a Fabric/OneLake feature that turns files (CSV, Parquet, JSON) referenced via shortcuts into continuously synchronized Delta tables—without building ETL pipelines or writing code.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview feature for Fabric Eventstream connectors that adds support for custom Certificate Authorities and mutual TLS, using Azure Key Vault to store and rotate certificates for Kafka-based streaming sources.
Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces the Migration Assistant (Preview) for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, outlining a wizard-driven process to migrate from SQL Server or Azure SQL Database using DACPAC schema import, compatibility checks, and Fabric Copy Jobs—positioning operational data for OneLake-based analytics and AI workloads.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces general availability of ANY_VALUE() in Fabric Data Warehouse, explaining how this T-SQL aggregate helps keep GROUP BY clauses focused on the true grouping key while still returning functionally dependent descriptive columns like city, state, and country.
Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces (preview) built-in AI functions in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse to extract, classify, analyze sentiment, and transform unstructured text directly in T-SQL, including a prompt-based function for custom processing.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview ADO.NET driver that lets .NET apps connect to Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering Spark workloads via Livy APIs, using familiar ADO.NET abstractions plus Entra ID authentication, pooling, session reuse, and Spark SQL support.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains a Microsoft Fabric (Preview) update that lets you enable workspace-level customer-managed keys (CMK) even when the underlying Fabric capacity is configured for Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), simplifying enterprise encryption and compliance setups while using Azure Key Vault or Managed HSM.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a generally available feature in Microsoft Fabric: email failure notifications for scheduled jobs, configurable per item schedule and supported across Pipelines, Notebooks, Dataflows Gen2, and other schedulable Fabric items.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces new Fabric Data Factory capabilities for Apache Airflow orchestration and pipeline authoring, including native operators to run Fabric items from DAGs, new Airflow job APIs, and preview interval-based scheduling to support common ETL patterns.
Microsoft Fabric Blog (coauthored by Yichao Wu) announces Item Recovery in Microsoft Fabric (Preview), adding a workspace recycle bin and soft-delete retention (7–90 days) so teams can restore deleted Fabric items and preserve permissions, lineage, and labels for recovery, governance, and investigations.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview) can restore a dropped warehouse from the Workspace Recycle Bin within a tenant-configured retention window, bringing back data, schemas, snapshots, and security without manual rebuilds.
Microsoft Fabric Blog (with coauthor Simon Tuson) announces a preview integration that brings Stibo Systems Master Data Management into Microsoft Fabric, ingesting curated master data into OneLake/Lakehouse so teams can use Direct Lake, semantic models, and Fabric AI features for analytics and AI workloads with less ETL overhead.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces general availability of sensitivity labels in Microsoft Fabric Public APIs, explaining how teams can retrieve label metadata in core item APIs and use it for governance automation, workspace classification monitoring, and AI/agent safety guardrails.
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a new (preview) in-product migration experience that helps move Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse pipelines into Fabric Data Factory, including an assessment-first flow, automatic pipeline conversion steps, and notes on what happens during migration (like triggers being disabled by default).
Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview Compute setting for SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric that lets admins cap auto-scaling with a Max vCores limit (default 32, optional 4) to improve cost predictability and reduce “noisy neighbor” impact in shared capacities.