Azure Weekly

Issue #533 - 28th September 2025

This week, we have a lot of articles which cover the announcements from FabCon Vienna: Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference - James Serra provides a comprehensive summary of FabCon Vienna announcements, including new mirroring capabilities, OneLake security features, and AI-powered enhancements across the platform. Unlocking LLM-Powered through Data Agent from your Mirrored Databases - Enables direct connection of mirrored database artifacts to Fabric Data Agents, allowing Natural Language to SQL queries across operational data from various sources. Mirroring for Google BigQuery in Microsoft Fabric Preview - Extends Microsoft's zero-ETL strategy by enabling near real-time replication of BigQuery tables into OneLake for unified cross-cloud analytics.

New Innovations for Fabric Data Factory Orchestration - Introduces Copy Job item, simplified pipeline terminology, enhanced Airflow integration, and CICD support for enterprise-grade automation. View and manage security in the OneLake catalog (Preview) - New Secure tab in OneLake catalog provides centralized management of workspace roles and OneLake security roles with row-level and column-level security capabilities.

AI-Powered Real-Time Intelligence with Anomaly Detection (Preview) - No-code anomaly detection feature that automatically recommends and tests industry-standard algorithms to identify irregularities in streaming data patterns. Maps in Microsoft Fabric - Geospatial Insights for Real-Time Operations - New Map item brings location-aware analytics to Real-Time Intelligence, enabling visualization of spatial data patterns for operational insights.

Microsoft Fabric extension for VS Code - Now generally available, enabling management of Fabric workspaces and development of notebooks and Spark jobs directly within VS Code. Jenny Jiang highlights the new Fabric Spark Monitoring APIs. Fabric Spark Monitoring APIs - Generally available APIs providing Spark Advisor for performance recommendations and Resource Usage API for granular vCore allocation metrics. Fabric Spark Run Series Analysis - Advanced observability feature for understanding, comparing, and optimizing recurring Spark job executions with outlier detection and autotune integration. And finally, Fabric User Data Functions are now Generally Available - Serverless Python-based functions enabling custom business logic that can be invoked from pipelines, notebooks, and Power BI reports with async and pandas support.