Fabric Ideas

Please integrate Apache Iceberg Catalog into Microsoft Fabric. Major platforms are adapting the open Iceberg Catalog for the open lakehouse standards. It's future proof when you can perfom cross-engine read and write interoperability via Iceberg Catalog format and RESTAPI.  https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/introducing-polaris-catalog/     ... View more

The BULK INSERT Statement in SQL Server/Azure SQL has a DATA_SOURCE option that enables importing files from the paths relative to the DATA_SOURCE location, and also adding a custom authentication in data source. Without the DATA_SOURCE option the BULK INSERT s limited to EntraID authentication only so SQL Server/Azure SQL BULK INSERT statements that use SAS, SPN, Managed Identity for authentication cannot be migrated to Fabric DW.   We need a DATA_SOURCE to migrate this kind of statements BULK INSERT (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn ... View more

It would be useful to be able to parameterize the "Connection type" dropdown in the Copy Activity. This would allow avoiding to duplicate distinct copy job for each source or destination data platforms, when trying to leverage metadata to populate the pipeline.       ... View more

Customer wants to create Dataflow Gen2 directly in a folder without moving it, according to the document below: Create folders in workspaces - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn ... View more

I’d like to propose using Service Principal authentication for publishing reports. This would help avoid individual ownership of semantic models and eliminate the need for constant take over when collaborating on the same asset. ... View more

I like the HC feature, i use it a lot, but when i use the VSCode extension I can't connect to an existent HC session and it would be very useful. Please make it happen! 🙏 ... View more

In SSIS when more than one connector is added to an activity from preceding activities, the logic for the connectors can be an 'and' condition or an 'or' condition.  This allows petter process flow between activities and also prevents the need to duplicate activities when preceding activities are a one or the other situation.  Please add this in Fabric data pipelines. ... View more

I have been asked for this feature many times by users, they want to be able to enter month-year in the date filter instead of entering the full date as shown below. they don't want to select from a dropdown nor enter the long date.  Thanks  ... View more

I've been digging into the Fabric Monitor hub, and one of the things that I'm missing in the first overview you get is the runtime. One of the issues we regularly encounter with customers is that the ETL process finishes late. To quickly determine which process took more time than expected, an overview of the runtimes in the first view would really help!  ... View more

  It would be extremely helpful if Power BI provided an option to automatically maintain a consistent spacing (e.g., 5–10 pixels) between visuals when stacking or aligning them vertically/horizontally. This would streamline dashboard design, improve consistency, and reduce manual adjustments when resizing or rearranging visuals. Suggested features: A setting to define default spacing between visuals Smart guides or auto-snap to spacing Support for equal spacing in "Align" and "Distribute" functions This small UX feature would save time and improve layout precision, especially for reports with many visuals. ... View more

Have one Eventhouse for Fabric monitoring for each capacity and not for each workspace. That will dramatically reduce my costs and make it easier to correlare the different telemtry streams.  ... View more

There is currently no reliable way to view the size of a data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric using T-SQL or the Fabric Explorer. This makes it difficult to manage storage, troubleshoot performance issues, and understand data usage.   Recommended improvements: Fix existing DMVs so they return accurate storage usage and metadata for Fabric Data Warehouses. Update the Fabric Explorer Table Properties UI (specifically the Properties tab) to show: Current Size – the size of active data (such as optimized Delta files) Total Size – the size of all files, including older versions and unoptimized data V-Order Status – to provide insight into data layout optimization Last Compaction Timestamp Per-file Metrics – such as file sizes, modification times, and row counts Enhance the Fabric Explorer column list to indicate whether a column has a primary key, foreign key, or unique index defined. These changes would significantly improve visibility into storage and performance, making it easier to manage and optimize Fabric Data Warehouses. Note: While some of this information can be obtained via OneLake Explorer or a Spark notebook, the experience is currently cumbersome and not user-friendly.  🍍🍕 ... View more

  Background: I created a KPI Card displaying data up to the quarter level in the date hierarchy. A label correctly reflects the applied filter/expansion level (e.g., "Current Quarter") at the tooltip. However, when using this label in conditional formatting for the title, it returns "Current Period" instead of "Current Quarter," indicating it defaults to the unfiltered state. Issue: The title does not inherit the expected "Current Quarter" value from the line chart visual's filter context, making dynamic title updates challenging. Desired Improvement: I want the title to dynamically reflect the filter level (e.g., "Current Quarter") based on the visual's date hierarchy, similar to the tooltip behavior. This would streamline the creation of dynamic visuals. Additional Request: I seek a function to retrieve a visual's width and height to optimize text title calculations. Current formula for title : Label = SWITCH(     TRUE(),     ISFILTERED('Calendar'[Week Ending]), "Week Ending",     ISFILTERED('Calendar'[Day]), "Day",     ISFILTERED('Calendar'[Month]), "Current Month",     ISFILTERED('Calendar'[Quarter]), "Current Quarter",     ISFILTERED('Calendar'[Year]), "Current Year",     "Current Period" )   ... View more

Hi Everyone, I am using Advanced Gantt Chart by Definitive Logic on Power BI.  When a Phase and Milestone gantt chart is created using that view, the data labels are set for some on left, for some on right and for some in the center of Phase bars and Milestones. Currently, the formatting does not have an option to place data labels on a specific side and  is automatically handled by the visual depending on space and layout.   Can we have an option to place all labels for Phases and Milestones in the view on a specific side? All data labels will either be on left or all on right side of Phases and Milestones.   Attached is the screenshot with dummy data and data labels (highlighted) which are placed by default to left, right and center. ... View more

ISSUE: In a Fabric pipeline, after creating for the first time a new table or writing to a lakehouse table with a Copy Data activity, pipeline execution moves on to the next activity in the pipeline faster than the lakehouse has time to update and show that there is new data available to downstream activities.  When these activities try to read from the lakehouse table, of course, this causes an error.  If this happens right after the table was created for the first time, the pipeline environment does not see the table as existing yet since the execution thread is moving forward faster than the lakehouse can update and tell the pipeline that now it has a new table or new data.   POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:   1__Have an option in the Settings tab that when checked, causes the Copy Data activity to start waiting for a response from the lakehouse.  After the lakehouse sends the response that the all the data or table has been committed, clear the wait flag, and Copy Data activity completes its execution, and the pipeline execution resumes with the next activity.   OR    2__Provide a new activity called "Wait for I/O commit", which would pause the pipeline execution and wait for the lakehouse that is specified in its settings to send a message that the data is now available for read operations. Upon receipt of said message, this activity would allow pipeline executoin to resume.     2 simple, elegant, and user-friendly ways to once and for all get rid of this synchronization headache. ... View more

When a report uses RLS and a user with access to the app attempts to access it prior to being added to the Security screen, a message directing them to contact the "dataset owner" pops up. The problem is, the "dataset owner" is just the last person who "took ownership" of a given dataset....we have several people on our team who manage this, and we "take over" reports for various reasons throughout the day/week. We would much prefer to designate the contact information listed in that popup instead, the way we can for the "request access" popup when a user doesn't have access to the app... ... View more

most of our data processing code was implemented in Scala. This choice was driven by Scala’s native integration with Spark, superior performance, full access to Spark features, strong compile-time safety, and more mature tooling and ecosystem support at the time. While PySpark has significantly improved—offering near API parity, better performance, and support for the Pandas API—migrating all our existing Scala code to Python might not provide the best user experience and could introduce unnecessary complexity.   Could you provide Scala support in AI features? ... View more

Problem: Reordering the 'Explain By' dimension list in the Decomposition Tree currently requires navigating away to the Visualizations pane, interrupting the analysis workflow. Suggestion: Allow users to drag and drop the dimension options to reorder them directly within the opern columns. Benefit: This provides a much faster, more intuitive way to explore different analysis paths on-the-fly, improving user experience and analytical speed, especially with complex financial datasets. ... View more

Org Apps look promising, but the inability to disable the 'Share' permission for app users at the Tenant level keeps us from being able to use it.  Please add the option to enable/disable this feature in the Admin Portal.   ... View more