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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 … Continue reading “Simplify Schema Changes in Fabric Data Warehouse with ALTER COLUMN (Preview)”

Fabric April 2026 Feature Summary 

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 … Continue reading “Fabric April 2026 Feature Summary “

Unifying “Analyze data with” analytics across Fabric (Preview)

As Microsoft Fabric continues to converge analytics experiences across workloads, one of the most important steps forward is reducing friction in how users move from raw data to insights. With the latest integrations, the Eventhouse Endpoint is now deeply embedded into the “Analyze data with” entry points across Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Eventhouse, bringing a … Continue reading “Unifying “Analyze data with” analytics across Fabric (Preview)”

ALTER TABLE inside explicit transactions in Fabric Data Warehouse (Generally Available)

Schema evolution is a fact of life for modern analytics platforms. As data models grow, teams need to add columns, drop unused fields, and evolve constraints—often as part of tightly controlled deployment pipelines. Fabric DW supported transactional execution for key table‑focused DDLs like CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, TRUNCATE TABLE, CTAS and sp_rename—with this release, ALTER … Continue reading “ALTER TABLE inside explicit transactions in Fabric Data Warehouse (Generally Available)”