Releasesby GlyphDiagnose Fabric Data Warehouse workloads with the SQL DW operations skill (Generally Available)
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?
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Metadata for BigQuery Graph is automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog . This feature is available in preview .
BigQuery supports WHERE clauses inside aggregate function calls in preview
Aggregate function calls can now include a WHERE clause that filters their input with a boolean expression, simplifying conditional aggregation in SQL.
Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI_SUMMARIZE is now available in public preview, enabling customers to summarize text and multimodal content, including images and documents, directly in Snowflake.
Zero-copy support for all table formats in interactive warehouses (General availability)
Support for all table formats in interactive warehouses is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
Genie visualizations in Slack replies (Public Preview)
When a Genie response includes a chart, the visualization now appears as an image in the Slack reply. If you installed the Databricks Genie app for Slack previously, reinstall it to enable this. See Visualizations .
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog. This feature is available in preview . For more information, see Knowledge Catalog overview .
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Moving off ODBC , A self-serve scanner for your ADBC migration
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.
Upcoming changes to legacy Teams and Outlook activities in Fabric Data Factory pipelines
Beginning October 30, 2026, users will no longer be able to add new legacy Teams or legacy Outlook activities to pipelines. These legacy activities will no longer appear as options when users add new activities to a pipeline. Existing legacy activity instances can still be edited and used in existing pipelines.
Soft delete for On-premises data gateways in Microsoft Fabric (Preview)
Deleting a gateway is currently permanent, so administrators must recreate it if it is removed accidentally. With soft delete, supported gateways are retained for 30 days after deletion, giving authorized administrators time to restore them before permanent deletion.
Mirroring for Google BigQuery in Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)
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.
Lineage-aware AI with the Fabric item relations API (Preview)
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.
Accelerate JSON workloads with the Native Execution Engine in Microsoft Fabric
JSON is one of the most common formats in modern data platforms. It carries application events, API payloads, operational telemetry, configuration data, and the metadata that coordinates data-driven processes. For many organizations, JSON is not an edge case. It is part of the critical path from ingestion through transformation and analytics.
Get ready for table discovery in OneLake Catalog search (Preview)
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.
Advancing the Microsoft Fabric SQL Query Editor
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.