Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Update
Released on 26th February so quite late again.
And the introductory video can be found here:
Other videos are linked in my synopsis below
Power BI
Please see my LinkedIn update
Fabric Platform
Permission tab in the OneLake catalog
This feature enables setting permissions on data objects from a single interface so we don’t have to navigate to individual workspaces.? Handy for those that do a lot of permissions management
Govern your individual data estate in OneLake catalog (Preview)
This is a preview feature and a good idea but the execution is lacking in my opinion.? The report doesn’t really tell us much of value and it is hard to navigate.? Making the semantic model available would probably serve us better.
Data Engineering
Quite a lot of updates in here concerning notebook improvement, further git integration and deployment pipeline additions amongst other bits.
Data Science
This section wins the prize for the most videos this month!
Fabric demo – Open full datasets in Excel This video appears in two other places in he blog as well.? I think they liked this even if I failed to understand why ??
Data Warehouse
Improved data ingestion capabilities with OPENROWSET function and BULK INSERT and further capabilities for CTEs (common table expressions).
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Other improvements have been made across Fabric and some of them will be ?important for certain folk.? Most of what I have not covered above is applicable to large organisations or rare (from my experience) use cases.? Check out the blog if you want to know more.
Ian