Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

VNET Data Gateway for Fabric and Power BI is now Generally Available

We are very excited to announce that as of today, the VNET Data Gateway is now generally available to support production workloads. The VNET data gateway is a network security offering that lets you connect your Azure and other data services to Microsoft Fabric and the Power Platform. You can run Dataflow Gen2, Power BI … Continue reading “VNET Data Gateway for Fabric and Power BI is now Generally Available”

Copilot in Fabric (preview) is available worldwide 

During November 2023, we unveiled the public preview of Copilot in Microsoft Fabric. This preview includes Copilot for Power BI, Data Factory and Data Science & Data Engineering. Since then, we have been gradually rolling this feature out and today, we are excited to announce that our Copilot preview is now available to all customers! With the Copilot preview, Microsoft … Continue reading “Copilot in Fabric (preview) is available worldwide “

Automate Fabric Data Warehouse Queries and Commands with Data Factory

Microsoft Fabric provides a cloud-scale data warehouse to store your analytical data for dashboards and historical reporting. In Fabric Data Factory, there are a number of ways to query data, retrieve data, and execute commands from your warehouse using pipeline activities that can then be easily automated for unattended background execution. I’ll go left-to-right from … Continue reading “Automate Fabric Data Warehouse Queries and Commands with Data Factory”

Use Fabric Data Factory Data Pipelines to Orchestrate Notebook-based Workflows

Microsoft Fabric Data Factory’s data pipelines enable data engineers to build complex workflows that can orchestrate many different types of data processing, data movement, data transformation, and other activity types. In this post, I want to focus on some good practices when building Fabric Spark Notebook workflows using Data Factory in Fabric with data pipelines. … Continue reading “Use Fabric Data Factory Data Pipelines to Orchestrate Notebook-based Workflows”

Read data from Delta Lake tables with the DeltaLake.Table M function

We’re happy to announce a new function in Power Query’s M language for reading data from Delta Lake tables: the DeltaLake.Table function. This function is now available in Power Query in Power BI Desktop and in Dataflows Gen1 and Gen2 and replaces the need to use community-developed solutions like this one by Gerhard Brueckl. Let’s … Continue reading “Read data from Delta Lake tables with the DeltaLake.Table M function”