Season's greetings, Fabric Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Fabric team is taking a break for December, with all the planned updates rolling out in January. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.
Fabric turned one at Ignite 2024
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Microsoft Fabric celebrated its first birthday at Microsoft Ignite 2024. Arun Ulag and Amir Netz's showstopping breakout introduced SQL on Fabric, making it the first-ever SaaS database in the industry, and announced the general availability of Real-Time Intelligence on Fabric. November also witnessed a tidal wave of Fabric announcements - catch up on all of them in the November Fabric Update Blog.
Fabric Community Conference
In 2024 we introduced #FabCon, the Fabric Community Conferences that attracted over 8,000 Fabric fans across 2 sold-out conferences in Las Vegas and Stockholm.Join us for FabCon 2025 in Las Vegas from March 31 to April 2 for the biggest-ever FabCon. With 4 keynotes, 215 sessions, and 20 full-day Workshops covering Power BI, Fabric, SQL and AI, it’s the ultimate learning event for BI professionals, database professionals, and developers.
Here are 5 more reasons to join us at FabCon in 2025:
- The extremely popular Ask the Experts enclave with 12+ dedicated booths to answer your trickiest technical, capacity, and billing questions.
- The much-anticipated FREE Partner Pre-Day for systems integrators to help grow their Fabric practice. Check out the key takeaways from Microsoft Partners including why they're returning for FabCon2025.
- The buzzing Community Lounge to connect and collaborate with like-minded professionals, stalwarts (and celebrities) in the data community.
- The ever-popular Power Hour where you are guaranteed to learn NOTHING but may luck out with cool swag.
- Brand new at FabCon 2025, a Power BI visualization showdown where you get to watch and vote on the best of the best competing for our world title!
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Snag the early bird discount before Dec 31 and use code MSCUST to get another $150 off, this is the lowest it’s ever going to be! Need help convincing your boss, use this letter!
Certification Season is Here!
As the year winds down, it’s a great time to catch up on learning and supercharge your career with new certifications. Consider taking Exam DP-600 to attain the Fabric Analytics Engineer certification – the fastest growing certification in Microsoft history. Ready to dive deeper and test your skills as a Fabric Data Engineer? Take the beta Exam DP-700. More self-study materials will be released in December with general availability expected in mid-January.That’s it from us for 2024; we’ll see you in 2025 with our monster update in January!
Happy holidays and happy new year!