Sep 25 (edited) in General
SEPTEMBER FABRIC UPDATES ANNOUNCED (FabCon2024)
So now we have confirmation of the new features that are being launched at FabCon.
There are three main places to look:
- The September 2024 Fabric Update Blog
- Arun Ulag's summary of the announcements, which is also useful
- If you like video, you can watch the Microsoft YouTube video on the updates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWQMlt9ikE0
It will take a few hours (or days/ weeks) to digest everything that's in there, but a few that caught my eye on first look:
General:
- Git Integration is now GA
- New Fabric Terraform provider has been released (Preview), to enable infrastructure-as-code/ automation.
- Access Databricks Unity Catalog tables from Fabric (public preview)
Data Warehouse
- T-SQL NOTEBOOKS! This is really cool - and opens up new options for Data Analytics (who know T-SQL), I mentioned this in my latest video.
- Delta column mapping in the SQL analytics endpoint (public preview) - this allows users to be a bit more liberal with column names (including spaces, if that's your jam)
Data Engineering
- T-SQL Endpoint now working on Lakehouse with Schemas (but Lakehouse Schemas still preview: use with caution!).
- High Concurrency mode for Notebooks in Pipelines (public preview)
- Adding Python support in Fabric User Data Functions (previous I think it was just C#, so it's good to see Python is now also supported. I haven't really looked at this feature since it was announced at the last conference, but now maybe is a good time)
- Data Wrangler now supports Spark DataFrames and PySpark code generation (generally available) - previously is was just Pandas Dataframes, now PySpark DF's too, which makes more sense.
Data Factory:
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SEPTEMBER FABRIC UPDATES ANNOUNCED (FabCon2024)
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