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Fabric April 2026 Feature Summary 

April 30, 2026 by Katie Murray 6,055 Views

Welcome to the April 2026 Microsoft Fabric update! This month’s update brings a broad set of new capabilities across Microsoft Fabric, spanning the platform experience, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Warehouse, and Real-Time Intelligence. Read on to learn about improvements to the Fabric experience, deeper VS Code integration, enhanced notebook resiliency, expanded machine learning and …

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Simplify Schema Changes in Fabric Data Warehouse with ALTER COLUMN (Preview)

As your data warehouse evolves with changing business needs, so does your schema. Whether you’re onboarding new data sources, updating business logic, or scaling analytics models, schema updates—such as increasing column length or adjusting numeric precision are a normal part of operating a modern analytical warehouse. Now, even minor schema changes often require rebuilding tables …

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OneLake security (Generally Available)

OneLake security is an innovative, fine-grained access control model built natively into data lake storage that’s designed to work across multiple engines. Data stored in OneLake can be secured at scale at the item, folder, table, or even row/column level through our intuitive role-based access control model and that security travels with the data wherever …

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Discover Fabric items across workspaces with the OneLake Catalog Search API, MCP and CLI tools (Preview)

The OneLake Catalog helps people find, explore, and curate Fabric items across their organization. With OneLake Catalog Search API, MCP and CLI tools, that same discovery experience is now available programmatically, making it possible to build search directly into scripts, internal tools, and agentic workflows. Search across workspaces The OneLake Catalog Search REST API brings …

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Azure Data Studio to VS Code: What it means for SQL database in Fabric developers

Azure Data Studio (ADS) has been a familiar tool for SQL developers, but with its retirement on February 6, 2025, and end of support on February 28, 2026, teams need a clear path forward. For those working with SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the transition to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is not just a …

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Pipelines are evolving beyond ETL

For years, data pipelines have been synonymous with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load): extract data from one place, transform it, and load it somewhere else. That model worked well when analytics workflows were mostly batch driven and isolated from the rest of the business. But that world has changed. Now, organizations use data platforms to power …

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