Releasesby GlyphUnifying SQL Pools: Upcoming changes to UI and APIs
Microsoft announced upcoming changes to Fabric Data Warehouse SQL pools, unifying workload management into a single configuration model while deprecating the customSQLPoolsEnabled flag.
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AlloyDB AI smart batching and sentiment analysis are generally available
AlloyDB AI smart batching for AI functions and the ai.analyze_sentiment function are now generally available on PostgreSQL 17 and later. Smart batching improves query performance by offloading AI operations asynchronously.
BigQuery compute cost attribution is available in preview
BigQuery now supports compute cost attribution in preview, allowing users to track billed compute charges at the project level based on reservation capacity usage for FinOps reporting.
BigQuery jobs explorer performance troubleshooting is generally available
BigQuery jobs explorer now provides generally available tools for troubleshooting query performance and comparing job and system performance to diagnose regressions.
BigQuery pipeline task concurrency limits are generally available
Users can now specify the maximum number of concurrently executed tasks when creating or scheduling BigQuery pipelines.
BigQuery adds Zstandard compression functions in preview
BigQuery now supports Zstandard (Zstd) compression and decompression functions for bytes and string values in GoogleSQL, currently available in preview.
AWS Glue adds 100 new native connectors for popular SaaS applications
AWS Glue now includes 100 native connectors for SaaS and REST API applications, enabling data integration without custom code. These connectors allow teams to reuse connections across ETL jobs with existing permission models.
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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.
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.
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.