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oberthju
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6 months ago

Dataflow Gen1 officially marked as Legacy today — Pro users left with no migration path unless they

Microsoft just published a blog post today (April 2, 2026) titled “Dataflows: Thank you for eight years of Gen1—and why Gen2 is the future” by Miguel Llopis. Here’s the TL;DR: ∙ Dataflow Gen1 is no...
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lbendlin
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6 months ago

It is possible to run a DF Gen2 without a destination.  That would make it "equivalent" to a DF Gen1 with the difference that DFGen1 stores CSV files in Azure Blob storage and DF Gen2 stores Delta Lake files in OneLake (i think)

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Jon_vB
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6 months ago

So, it's just a matter of letting me create a Gen2 flow as 'just' a Pro user, no fabric license needed.  That seems like something they could have sorted out before announcing Gen1 is being retired.  I still think getting organizations started that way will eventually lead them to want a data warehouse, but it's nice to have the ability to reuse right from the start.