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Sometimes the best technical scenarios start with a problem you hope never becomes real. In Patient Zero in Redlands: Tracking a Zombie Outbreak with ArcGIS for Microsoft Fabric, Sean McGinnis from...

In the previous post (found here), I described first 4 steps in the process to implement an Azure automation job to schedule Pause and Refresh functions for Azure capacities. Pausing a Fabric capacit...

Introduction Microsoft Fabric allows pausing an F SKU capacity when it is not needed and resume it when work should continue. While pausing Fabric capacities will reduce operational cost, it will ma...

Most confusion comes from the word "agent" being used for all four. The fastest way to choose is to ask two questions: who builds it (maker or developer) and what triggers it (a person asking, or dat...

Microsoft announced Advanced NL2SQL and advanced DAX generation as generally available on 19 October 2026. The core improvements roll out to the standard runtime by default, together with a move to G...

In today’s data-driven world, governance isn’t just about compliance — it’s about enabling trust, consistency, and scale. As organizations adopt Microsoft Fabric to unify their analytics, the challen...

Link to the notebooks to reproduce: https://github.com/iurii-iurchenko-1/source-materials/tree/main/2026Q3_spark_runtime_2_0 Outline 1. What is Runtime 2.0 and why does it matter? 2. The five fe...

Last week I handed Microsoft Fabric's new Data Engineering Agent a messy ETL job that took me 11 hours to build by hand last quarter. It had a working, validated pipeline in front of me in under an h...