Fabric October 2024 update just dropped, let's discuss your favorite updates!

24d ago (edited) in Announcements

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.

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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.

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