Fabric October 2024 update just dropped, let's discuss your favorite updates!
Hi everyone this month’s Fabric update has been released ( read the full blog here ) and below are brief decriptions of all the new features, let's discuss what you are most excited about or would like to learn more about from the community.
Quick Reminders:
  • Quick reminder for those planning to take the DP-700, you can check out the study guide here
  • FREE DP-600 Vouchers & Learning Resources: We shared a post recently with details on free vouchers and new resources—take a look here
So, here goes the updates:
Fabric Warehouse
  • Case Insensivity Collation support for fabric warehouse
  • Improvements made to consurrency performance for customers that run complex queries with multiple users
  • VARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX) can now be used in fabric warehouse tables
  • Improved JSON capabilities in Warehouse , SQL Endpoint , Lakehouse and Mirrored Databases
Fabric Data Engineering
  • Service Principal Name(SPNs) support has been introduced for API for GraphQL
  • Users can now automatically generate python and Node.js code snippets based on GraphQL queries they tested in the API Explorer. This will help them save time and focus on other important tasks
  • Spark Notebooks can now be used to run read-only queries on mirrored databases
  • Lakehouses can now be filtered, sorted and searched
Real-Time
  • Git interation is now available for real time dashboards
  • KQL Query results can now be quickly visualized in KQL Queryset
Copilot and AI
  • The copilot powerBI creation experience has been enhanced
Reporting
  • Visual calculations can now be added to combo charts
  • Visual Calculations can now be added to visuals that uses field parameters and vice versa
  • Azure Maps are now intercative. Azure map reference layer components can now be mapped to your data
  • Teams activity analytics report will be retired from 01/01/2025
Modelling
  • Dynamic format strings for measures are now genrally available
  • 4 new INFO.VIEW DAX functions are now available
  • You can now choose between Automatic , Coalesced or Independent value filter behavior in your semantic model.
Mobile
  • Startng from the 1st of march 2025, PowerBI mobile will no longer be able to connect to report server using OAUTH protocol and AD FS 2016
Some new Visualizations
  • Sales Velocity Compass by Office Solution
  • Date Picker by Powerviz
  • Cycleplot by Nova Silva
  • DrillDown Network Pro by ZoomCharts
  • Decomposition Tree
  • ADWISE advanced column v1.0
  • EDITable
Feel free to share your thoughts below, and let’s learn together.
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Fabric October 2024 update just dropped, let's discuss your favorite updates!
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