Use OneLake as native storage for Azure Databricks
Microsoft Fabric announced general availability for OneLake external-location support with Azure Databricks Unity Catalog, allowing supported managed data to be stored directly in OneLake.
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AI Function task support in Declarative Automation Bundles (Beta)
Databricks introduced Beta support for AI Function tasks within Declarative Automation Bundles.
Give agents only the access they need
Buildkite released token permissions and queue scopes for agent tokens, allowing teams to restrict agent capabilities and limit job acceptance to specific queues.
Many-to-many relationships in semantic views (Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI launched a public preview for modeling many-to-many relationships between logical tables within semantic views.
BigQuery connections for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL are in preview
Google Cloud introduced BigQuery federated query connections to MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL in public preview.
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in December
GitHub announced the upcoming deprecation of several Copilot models on December 14, 2026, including Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Grok 4.6.
Aurora PostgreSQL with express configuration now supported in CloudFormation
AWS added support for Aurora PostgreSQL express configuration in CloudFormation, enabling single-property automated cluster creation and faster serverless database setup.
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The next chapter for CI/CD in Fabric Warehouse (Preview)
Microsoft Fabric Warehouse has expanded its CI/CD capabilities to support a complete lifecycle for data warehouses. This includes schema deployment via DacFx, pre- and post-deployment scripts, and Warehouse Item Definition APIs for automation.
Use OneLake as native storage for Azure Databricks (Preview)
OneLake external-location support for Azure Databricks Unity Catalog is now generally available in Microsoft Fabric. This integration allows Unity Catalog-managed data to be stored directly in OneLake, providing a shared physical data foundation for both platforms.
Unifying 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.
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.