Regular expression functions in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview)
Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse now supports scalar regular expression functions, including REGEXP_LIKE, REGEXP_REPLACE, and REGEXP_SUBSTR. These functions allow engineers to extract, validate, and transform text data directly within T-SQL.
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now generally available, offering omni-modal processing for text, image, and video. New features include standalone video upscaling, extended generation durations, and reference-guided video editing.
Use GPT-6-Cyber to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in an authorized test environment, and verify
OpenAI has released GPT-6-Cyber, a model designed to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in authorized environments, and verify fixes.
Gemini Enterprise: Prepaid credits for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions and usage above quota
Prepaid credits are now generally available for self-serve Cloud Billing accounts, allowing users to pay for Gemini Enterprise usage without an invoiced billing account.
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been removed
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been deprecated. Users should now use Knowledge Catalog for data discovery, profiling, and governance tasks.
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) location
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now supported in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) region.
Announcing Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Web Answer is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It provides a managed tool that returns synthesized, cited answers grounded in web sources in a single call.
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Build more connected workflows with Fabric Actions and Business Actions in Fabric Pipelines (Preview)
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.
Use OneLake as native storage for Azure Databricks (Generally Available)
OneLake external-location support for Azure Databricks Unity Catalog is now generally available. This integration allows Unity Catalog-managed data to be stored directly in OneLake, providing a shared physical data foundation for both Databricks and Fabric.
Eventhouse support for OneLake security (Generally Available)
OneLake security is now generally available for Eventhouse external tables. This allows for consistent object-level, column-level, and row-level access controls across Microsoft Fabric engines.
Find expensive queries from Capacity Metrics (Generally Available)
The Monitor in warehouse feature is now generally available in the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app. It allows users to navigate directly from capacity usage spikes to specific warehouse query history.
OneLake table APIs: Now with Iceberg writes, plus richer table metadata (Preview)
OneLake table APIs now support Iceberg REST Catalog writes, allowing engines like PyIceberg and DuckDB to commit data directly. A new metadata API in preview allows adding descriptions and tags to tables and columns.
Govern Fabric connections with admin APIs and data connection policies (Preview)
Microsoft Fabric introduced admin connection APIs for visibility and ownership management, alongside data connection policies for tenant-wide security guardrails. These features are available in preview.
Salesforce Data 360 integration with OneLake (Preview)
Salesforce Data 360 integration with OneLake is now in preview. It uses OneLake Shortcuts to query Salesforce data directly within Microsoft Fabric without creating ingestion copies.
Share data and context across organizations with IQ Share (Preview)
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.