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Microsoft Fabric now supports Fabric Actions and Business Actions in pipelines, allowing users to trigger Fabric REST API operations and third-party business applications directly within workflows. This reduces the need for custom API integration code.
IQ Share allows organizations to share Fabric data items and context across different Fabric tenants without creating data copies. Producers retain control over access while recipients work within their own workspaces.
The Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server REST API version 2026-10-01 is now generally available, introducing new capabilities for maintenance, immutable backups, and encryption.
OneLake now offers a remotely hosted MCP server in preview, allowing AI agents to manage data and shortcuts without a local server installation.
With this enhancement, you have the ability to lock your retention to the configured PITR retention, beyond the default 7 days of immutable backups that are already available. This is especially useful for financial customers who typically have 35 days of
Copilot in Microsoft Fabric can now generate Real-Time Dashboards from natural-language descriptions. It uses database context from an Eventhouse to create initial dashboard layouts.
You can now restart or fail over databases directly from the Azure portal, including single databases, Hyperscale databases, and databases in elastic pools, without writing scripts against the Rest API or contacting support. Learn more.
Users can now assign a user-assigned managed identity to individual databases in Azure SQL Database. This enables secure access to files in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Storage Gen2 via external tables and OPENROWSET.
Sail, a Rust-native distributed compute framework, and LakeSail Cloud now connect to Microsoft OneLake. This integration allows teams to run Spark and Python workloads on Fabric using Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg formats without data copies or extra connectors.
Microsoft Fabric updated scalar user-defined functions (UDFs) in the Data Warehouse, adding support for procedural logic like loops and conditional branches. These functions can now be inlined for better performance across analytical workloads.
Microsoft has made the multi-model Copilot harness available through Microsoft Foundry. The managed harness provides an orchestration layer to build agents across 20+ frontier models, with support for open standards like MCP and agent skills.
New design and KPI features for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards are now generally available. These include Design Tiles for layout structure, multi-KPI grouping, and enhanced KPI styling to improve dashboard readability and reduce authoring effort.
Microsoft Foundry now provides integrated cost management and tagging for Claude models within Azure Cost Management. This update ensures Claude usage is tracked under the specific Foundry resource rather than as general SaaS spend.
Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse now integrates with workspace monitoring, allowing administrators to track query activity, performance, and failures across an entire workspace from a single location.
Users can now use natural language to create custom HTML-based visualizations and KQL queries directly within Real-Time Dashboards using Copilot.
The Fabric Notebook Toolkit connects coding agents to Fabric notebooks via CLI, allowing agents to inspect code, execute cells, and validate changes interactively.
Microsoft announced the general availability of Safe Key Rotation for Azure Cosmos DB, exposing last-used timestamp metadata for account keys to assist in credential rotation and retirement.
Fabric Eventstreams now includes generally available managed connectors for SAP Datasphere, Cribl, Solace PubSub+, and MQTT. These updates allow users to connect to more streaming sources, enrich events with contextual data, and monitor processing health directly within Fabric.
Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse now supports calling custom Python logic via Fabric User Data Functions directly from T-SQL queries, enabling tasks like API calls, file parsing, and secret retrieval.
Private network gateway for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview, enabling serverless compute to connect to resources in your virtual network (VNet) and transitively connected networks through a single managed gateway. Customers can use the gateway t
Microsoft Fabric introduced Fabric Policies in preview, giving administrators granular governance controls across workspaces and capacities. Organizations can define central or capacity-scoped rules for item creation and security settings.
Microsoft Fabric released workspace-level private link support for SQL databases in preview, enabling secure database connectivity at the workspace boundary.
Microsoft Fabric introduced Fabric App functions in preview. The TypeScript-based serverless functions allow developers to execute custom server-side business logic, access protected data, and manage secrets securely within Fabric Apps.
Microsoft Fabric released enhancements to the Capacity Metrics app in preview, featuring an updated interface, new health and compute visuals, and metrics such as percentage of time spent in throttling across capacities.
The integration between Microsoft Agent 365 and Azure API Management is now available in public preview, helping organizations connect centralized governance with runtime enforcement for MCP servers and tools.With this integration, organizations can:Disco
Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the East US 3 Azure region. Learn more.
Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves in Azure SQL Database will retire on October 31, 2027 as support for SGX-enabled DC-series hardware is phased out. Customers should transition to Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) enclaves, a hardware-independent
Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2) preview brings enterprise-grade long-term retention to PostgreSQL. Backups are taken as physical backups from managed disk snapshots and vaulted in an Azure Backup vault, so protection n
Starting October 15, 2026, Search in Microsoft Fabric will return tables from semantic models, lakehouses, and mirrored databases as individual results. Users can search by table name or description, or find a table by an exact column-name match. More ob
MVUs are now available for elastic clusters in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. You can upgrade an existing elastic cluster to a supported newer PostgreSQL version in place without provisioning a replacement cluster, migrating distributed data, or changing
Microsoft announced updates to Fabric Analytics, including the general availability of Fabric IQ inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork and Copilot Chat.
Auto-pause and auto-resume are now available in public preview for Azure SQL Hyperscale databases using the Serverless compute tier. You can configure databases to automatically pause during periods of inactivity and automatically resume when activity ret
Microsoft SQL Agent Skills help you get more accurate, product-specific guidance when using AI agents to build, operate, and migrate SQL workloads. You can use these skills with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database container, SQL Server to Azure migrati
Microsoft announced new database innovations, including database agents for AI-powered operations, updates to Database Hub, and new SQL capabilities.
Azure SQL Dev Hub gives you a central starting point for building applications with Azure SQL, whether you’re developing directly or using AI agents. You can find guidance for connecting to Azure SQL from .NET, Python, Node.js, and Java, along with resour
Azure HorizonDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, cloud-native database service designed for scalable, high-performance workloads.Azure HorizonDB, now in public preview, includes PostgreSQL 18 support.Learn more.
Microsoft released version 3000.334 of the on-premises data gateway for Microsoft Fabric. The update adds Soft Delete to retain deleted gateways for 30 days, Power BI Desktop compatibility updates, and manageability and security improvements.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL elastic clusters now support PostgreSQL 18, bringing the latest PostgreSQL capabilities to distributed, cloud-scale workloads. You can build new applications or modernize existing ones with the performance, reliability, and d
Publishing Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams is now generally available. An agent only delivers value once it reaches the people who need it, and Foundry developers previously had no native path to make their agents operational a
Mirroring for Google BigQuery in Microsoft Fabric is now generally available. For organizations running critical workloads on BigQuery, this means a simpler, faster, and lower-cost path to bringing your data into the rest of your analytics estate , with production support, an enterprise SLA, and no pipelines to build or maintain.
In mid-September 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:Configure soft delete for the Azure SQL logical server. When the logical server is deleted, it goes into a soft deleted state and is self-restorable during the configured
If your Fabric workspace connects to an ODBC driver, and you haven’t already moved to the ADBC driver, you’re on the ODBC → ADBC migration path. The migration window is already open , the sooner you start, the more room you have to validate.
When a warehouse slows down, the investigation usually starts with more questions than answers. Was there a capacity spike? Did a specific query suddenly become expensive? Are requests failing, being canceled, or simply taking longer than usual?
With two new REST operations, you can retrieve the upstream and downstream relations of any Fabric item directly from your own code , the dependency graph behind the portal's lineage view, now available as a supported, programmable surface.
Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent is now generally available. Troubleshooting Agent is a unified, built-in Azure Copilot capability that helps customers investigate and resolve operational issues faster. Available through both Azure Copilot and Support
In late September, OneLake Catalog will begin surfacing tables as searchable objects in Microsoft Fabric. This change expands which table metadata users can discover based on their existing item permissions, so administrators may want to review the related tenant setting before rollout.
The Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework is now generally available. The framework enables developers, teams, and partners to extend Azure Developer CLI with custom capabilities that support their preferred application development workflows.With
The Microsoft Fabric SQL Query Editor is the home for web-based SQL development in Fabric. It gives developers a workspace to explore warehouse data, write and run SQL, among many more capabilities. That work rarely starts and ends with a single query.
Capacity Operation Events in Real-Time Hub is now available as a preview, giving Microsoft Fabric capacity administrators access to detailed, operation-level telemetry in near real time.
Organizations can now bring governed business data from Microsoft Fabric into Copilot Studio agents, enabling agents to answer questions, generate insights, and support business processes using trusted enterprise data. Fabric data agents make it easier to ground experiences in the data your organization already relies on.
We’re happy to announce the public preview of reader endpoint support to simplify connection management when using multiple replicas in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. A reader endpoint enables automatic load balancing of read-only connection
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