Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Update
Very late this time round as this release was not available until 30th January so they only just made it!? Furthermore the complete set of videos and the playlist did not all arrive until 7th February, hence why I am only publishing this now.? The videos are still not all referenced in the blog and one of the last videos to arrive was the Intro ??. The order of the videos and the order in the blog is different too and the blog bullets are incorrectly indented in places which makes reading it a bit cryptic in places.?
I think there is a major panic to get this stuff out of the door every month and as a result it often seems messy to me.? Maybe they don’t need to release as a "big bang" every month??
Anyhow the blog is here: Microsoft Fabric January 2025 update | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric
And the videos can be found here
My synopsis below
Power BI
Please see my LinkedIn update
Platform
Folder support in Git has been introduced which is very much needed if you use Workspace folders to organise your artefacts and you want to use source control.
Data Engineering
Notebook Live versioning
This looks like a very useful feature that will effectively allow automatic back ups as well as manual ones and a host of features to compare and restore.
Data Warehouse
There seem to be quite a few back end performance improvements which is good to see but additionally:
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COPY INTO column count check
Nice additional feature to check the column count in the source against the target and control the behaviour if they don’t match.
Spatial Analytics Functions
Spatial analytics functions are now fully supported in Fabric DW and SQL endpoints. Spatial functions enable you to perform complex calculations on geographical?and?geometrical?shapes, such as determining the distance between points, checking whether a point is within a polygon, or whether the shapes intersect.?
Data Factory
Mirroring
Additional features have been added to mirroring for:
Additionally it now seems that one can mirror SAP data which could be a big win for some.? There is a third party involved with this feature so I suspect there may be extra costs involved but I haven’t checked it out in depth.
Copy Job
According to Microsoft: “Copy Job simplifies data ingestion, providing a seamless experience from any source to any destination.”? But it was not (and still is not) all sources and destinations but, in this release, they added Azure SQL Managed Instance which will be useful for many organisations that have systems built upon that stack.
Dataflow Gen2
There are a couple of useful additions to Dataflows Gen 2 including CI/CD and GIT integration support.
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There is more in the blog if you have the patience and time.
Ian