Browse Machine Learning News (169)

Sunitha Muthukrishna announces a public preview feature in Microsoft Fabric API for GraphQL that lets you enforce custom authorization rules via an Authorizer User Data Function, enabling policy-based access decisions using request context like user identity, roles, and tenant information.

stclarke summarizes SAP Sapphire 2026 announcements focused on running SAP workloads on Azure and moving enterprise AI from pilots to production, including Azure OpenAI + Copilot Studio scenarios, Microsoft Fabric connectivity to SAP data, sovereign cloud options for regulated industries, and Sentinel-based monitoring for SAP landscapes.

Shreyas Canchi Radhakrishna announces a preview update to Microsoft Fabric Data Agent that expands how it can query Eventhouse KQL databases by understanding user-defined functions, materialized views, and shortcut tables, improving consistency, performance, and access to external data sources.

Roberto Cervantes Rivero announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric: Eventstream can now publish Business Events directly to Real-Time Hub as a native destination. The post explains what Business Events are (schema-defined, governed signals), when no-code publishing fits, and when custom code via notebooks or user data functions is still needed.

Iqra Shaikh explains why treating database schema changes like application code—stored in Git and shipped via pull requests—reduces risk and improves traceability, and how SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric supports this workflow with built-in Git integration for GitHub and Azure DevOps.

Amir Jafari announces preview support for service principal (SPN) authentication for Microsoft Fabric data agents, explaining why app identities matter for production deployments and outlining two common patterns: calling a data agent directly from a custom app, or routing through a Microsoft Foundry agent.

Matt Basile introduces OneLake storage tiers and lifecycle management in Microsoft Fabric (preview), explaining how admins can reduce long-term storage costs by automatically moving files between hot, cool, and cold tiers while accounting for the trade-off of higher transaction, retrieval, and capacity (CU) costs.

Ambika Jagadish announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse that lets teams configure how many days of historical data versions are retained (1–120 days) using a single T-SQL command, enabling time travel queries, point-in-time clones, restore points, and warehouse snapshots.

Mariya Ali and Twinkle Cyril introduce Data Warehouse Monitor (Preview) in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, a unified UI for viewing running and completed queries together, analyzing performance across executions, spotting regressions and recurring slow queries, and cancelling problematic queries directly from the monitoring experience.

stclarke describes a Microsoft Research open dataset and pipeline that builds geographically grounded, electrically coherent U.S. transmission-grid models from public data, enabling AC optimal power flow studies at scales from small state networks to the full Eastern Interconnection.

Shireesh Thota summarizes the main architecture trends from Cosmos DB Conf 2026, focusing on how teams are building AI-native apps on Azure Cosmos DB with flexible data models, serverless scale, and first-class semantic/vector search, plus practical patterns for agent memory, cost visibility, and multi-user security.

Juan Montes reports on how Porsche Cup Brasil built an AI-assisted crash analysis and telemetry workflow on Microsoft platforms, cutting damage assessment time and improving race operations with human-in-the-loop validation.

Aaron Merrill announces the general availability of OneLake security in Microsoft Fabric, outlining the default enablement rollout, UI improvements for role management, safer RLS authoring with inline validation, and new APIs for managing roles and securing mirrored data across engines.

Gaurav Mittal explains how to validate GitHub Copilot Coding Agent runs in CI when agent behavior is non-deterministic, by building an independent “trust layer” that checks essential outcomes instead of brittle step-by-step scripts.

Avinanda Chattapadday introduces High Concurrency (HC) sessions for the Microsoft Fabric Livy API, enabling parallel Spark execution with session reuse, isolated REPLs, built-in monitoring, and better resource efficiency for automated pipelines and job orchestration.

Michael Bruhjell introduces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric’s monitoring hub that centralizes failure notification management for scheduled items, making it easier to view which jobs have notifications configured and to add, edit, or remove email recipients across many items and workspaces.

Miquella de Boer announces general availability of a native OneLake catalog experience inside Azure AI Foundry, letting teams browse governed Fabric/OneLake data in-context and turn it into knowledge sources for grounded AI workflows without manually wiring data sources.

Pankaj Arora announces general availability updates to Microsoft Fabric’s capacity observability tooling, including a new health page, timepoint summary and detail views for pinpointing compute usage, and the Fabric Chargeback app for allocating capacity costs back to workspaces or departments.

Leo Li announces the April 2026 on-premises data gateway release (version 3000.314), highlighting a generally available admin-triggered auto-update feature that lets gateway admins control when updates are applied to better fit maintenance windows and compliance needs.

Nadav Schachter introduces the OneLake Catalog Search API (Preview) for Microsoft Fabric, plus built-in support in the Fabric Core MCP Server and a new Fabric CLI find command, so teams can discover Fabric items across workspaces programmatically for scripts, internal tools, and agentic workflows.

Twinkle Cyril announces preview support for ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, enabling metadata-only schema evolution (like widening numeric precision or expanding string lengths) without rebuilding tables or rewriting underlying Parquet/Delta data files.

Miguel Escobar introduces the My queries (Preview) feature in Microsoft Fabric Dataflow Gen2, which lets you save Power Query M queries into a personal library and import them into other dataflows to reuse common transformations and standardize data prep work.

Justin Barry explains how Direct Lake on SQL works with Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, and what to optimize so Power BI semantic models stay fast and avoid falling back to DirectQuery.

Marisa Mathews rounds up April 2026 community picks from Microsoft MVPs and Fabric Super Users, linking to deep dives on Fabric Warehousing, Power BI/DAX performance, SQL Server 2025 mirroring, ingestion/orchestration choices, metadata-driven integration frameworks, governance features, and real-time dashboards built with Eventstream, Eventhouse, and KQL.

Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview of the OneLake Catalog Search REST API plus MCP and Fabric CLI support, letting developers search Fabric items across workspaces by metadata and use the returned identifiers in scripts, internal tools, and agent-driven workflows.

Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Fabric SQL developers can move from Azure Data Studio to VS Code, keeping SQL Database Projects and adopting a Git-based workflow with pull requests, schema compare, publish script previews, and optional GitHub Copilot assistance in the MSSQL extension.

Connie Xu explains how Microsoft Fabric pipelines are shifting from classic ETL into end-to-end workflow orchestration, including long-running processes, human approvals, and clearer monitoring for both technical and business stakeholders.

Katie Murray summarizes the April 2026 Microsoft Fabric updates across data engineering, data science, warehousing, and real-time analytics, including VS Code workspace management, notebook retry policies, MLflow cross-workspace logging, new warehouse ingestion options, and Eventstream/Eventhouse improvements like observability, MCP access, and mTLS with Azure Key Vault.

Anasheh Boisvert introduces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric that adds one-toggle observability for Eventstreams via Workspace Monitoring, automatically creating monitoring tables in an Eventhouse so you can query health, performance, and error metrics with KQL.

Vaibhav Shirvastava announces general availability of the SQL operator in Microsoft Fabric Eventstreams, a code-first way to transform and route streaming data. The post highlights multi-destination fan-out, built-in testing for transformations, and event-time processing controls for late and out-of-order events.

Matthew Hicks announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric that mirrors Dremio-managed Apache Iceberg tables into OneLake using a zero-copy approach, so teams can query and use the data across Fabric workloads without duplicating data or building ETL pipelines.

stclarke shares a LinkedIn post about Cricket Australia’s Live app, highlighting how Azure OpenAI and Azure Cosmos DB power “AI Insights” that let fans explore match context, player stats, and cricket history with fast, personalized responses.

preshah announces general availability of nested folder support for Microsoft Fabric shortcut transformations, enabling recursive processing of hierarchical data lake folders in OneLake and turning structured files into Delta tables without building separate transforms per subdirectory.

HARMEETGILL announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric that lets workspace admins secure OneLake inbound access using Azure resource identities instead of IP allowlists, and explains how it works alongside Private Link and IP firewall rules.

ruxu announces general availability of cross-workspace logging for MLflow in Microsoft Fabric, explaining how to log experiments and registered models into a target workspace using standard MLflow APIs. It also covers enterprise network requirements like Outbound Access Protection (OAP) and using managed private endpoints for secure cross-workspace traffic.

Aseem Datar announces expanded preview access for Microsoft Discovery, an Azure-based agentic AI platform for R&D. The post explains how Discovery combines agent orchestration, graph-based knowledge, and HPC to run iterative “discovery loops,” and shares early customer examples in materials science, oncology research, engineering simulation, and chip design.

xujiang1 (coauthored with Nikola Zagorac) explains how SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL can push row-level change events into Microsoft Fabric Eventstream using Change Event Streaming (CES), enabling near-real-time ingestion, transformation, and routing into Fabric Real-Time Intelligence destinations like Eventhouse for KQL analytics.

Abhishek Narain announces the general availability of workspace outbound access protection (OAP) for Microsoft Fabric Data Factory workloads, explaining how workspace admins can restrict outbound connections to trusted endpoints to improve security, prevent data exfiltration, and support compliance needs.

Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview of Customer-Managed Keys (CMK) for Fabric Eventhouse, letting customers manage their own encryption keys to meet compliance and regulatory requirements and add an extra layer of protection for data stored in Eventhouse.

Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI assistants and agents (including GitHub Copilot and Copilot Studio) to discover and operate Microsoft Fabric via new Local (GA) and Remote (preview) MCP servers, covering OneLake operations, API-grounded code generation, and security controls like Entra ID, RBAC, and audit logs.