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Sep '24 (edited) • 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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