Episode 287 – Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Feature Summary

This is episode 287 recorded on March 13th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Feature Summary including Python Notebooks in preview, Lineage enhancements to spark notebooks, lots of DBA enhancements to Data Warehouse, Tenant Level Private Link for Databases, and CI/CD preview for most of Fabric.

• Data Engineering
  • Python notebook (Preview)
  • Notebook live versioning
  • NotebookUtils session management utilities
  • Native Execution Engine on Runtime 1.3: simplified enablement and transition from Runtime 1.2
  • Legacy timestamp support in Native Execution Engine on Runtime 1.3
  • Notebook and Spark Job definition execution with service principal
  • Lineage Enhancement to Spark Notebook
• Data Warehouse
  • COPY INTO column count check
  • Enhancing COPY INTO operations with Granular Permissions in Data Warehouse
  • Introducing default schema changes in Data Warehouse
  • Enhanced performance metrics in Query Insights
  • Previewing estimated Query Plan available via SHOWPLAN_XML
  • Query Hints in Fabric Data Warehouse
  • Simplifying search & introducing Filter in Object Explorer
  • Open from SSMS & VS Code
  • Git Status Bar to Fabric Warehouse Artifact
  • Tooltip support for built-in functions
  • Stay updated with IntelliSense
  • JSON aggregates (Preview)
  • Spatial analytic functions
  • SQL analytics endpoint performance improvement
• Databases
  • Tenant Level Private Link (Preview)
  • Copilot for SQL database in Fabric Region Availability
• Real-time Intelligence
  • Override late arrival tolerance in Activator
  • Create new Activator items
  • RTI ALM & APIs GA
  • Data Factory
• Mirroring
• Copy Job
• Dataflow Gen2
• Conclusion