Episode 284 – Recap from FabCon Europe
This is episode 284 recorded on October 9th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the FabCon Europe 2024 and all of the announcements made there.
Core
- Announcing the Private Preview of the Microsoft Fabric SKU Calculator at the European Fabric Community Conference
- Announcing Service principal support for Fabric APIs
- Announcing the new Terraform Provider for Microsoft Fabric (Public Preview)
- Tag your data to enrich item curation and discovery
OneLake
- Databricks Unity Catalog tables available in Microsoft Fabric
- Google Cloud Storage shortcuts and S3 Compatible shortcuts (Generally Available)
- OneLake shared access signatures (SAS) now available in public preview
Data Warehouse
- Announcing the Public Preview of T-SQL Notebook in Fabric
- New editor improvements for Fabric Data Warehouse and SQL Analytics Endpoint
- Copilot for Data Warehouse Public Preview Update
- Working with large data types in Fabric warehouse
- Announcing improved JSON support in Fabric DW
Data Engineering
- Announcing the Fabric Apache Spark Diagnostic Emitter: Collect Logs and Metrics
- Introducing High Concurrency Mode for Notebooks in Pipelines for Fabric Spark
- Transform, Validate and Enrich Data with Python User Data Functions in your Data pipelines
- Announcement: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies have been extended to Fabric lakehouses
Data Science
- Harness Microsoft Fabric AI Skill to Unlock Context-Rich Insights from your Data
- Unlock faster insights with the new Copilot conversational mode (Public Preview)
- Important billing update coming to Copilot and AI in Fabric
Real-Time Intelligence
- Set alerts on KQL Querysets with Data Activator triggers
- Announcing Updates to Data Activator in Public Preview
Data Factory
- Announcing Public Preview: Incremental Refresh in Dataflows Gen2
- Announcing the General Availability of Copilot for Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric
- Announcing Public Preview: Copy Job in Microsoft Fabric
- Announcing the General Availability of Mirroring for Snowflake in Microsoft Fabric
- Mirroring Azure SQLDB in Fabric – New features in Public Preview and what’s coming up
- Announcing General Availability of Fabric Pipeline Integration in On-premises Data Gateway
- Fast Copy in Dataflows Gen2 is now Generally Available
- Several New Enhancements Announced for Fabric Data pipeline
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