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Fabric news from Build: New features to improve your solutions

DennesTorres — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:18:43 GMT

Join us for another exciting edition of our Microsoft Fabric User Group Meetup—where learning, networking, and community spirit come together!

As part of our growing tradition, each meetup features two sessions: one focused on foundational concepts and another diving into the latest advanced technologies.

Register online on this link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/maltadataplatformusergroup/1716625

Session 1 – Data Ingestion Concepts and Techniques

Before exploring tools, it’s essential to master the core concepts of data ingestion. We’ll break down key patterns and best practices that apply across any data platform—batch, streaming, or real-time. Whether you're new to the topic or looking to solidify your understanding, this session will strengthen your foundation.

Session 2 – Fabric News from Build: New Features to Improve Your Solutions

The latest Microsoft Build conference unveiled an exciting wave of innovations for Microsoft Fabric—some enhancements that recently entered preview, and others announced for the first time on the Build stage.

In this session, we'll explore the most impactful new features and how they can elevate your data solutions. Highlights include:

Translytical Task Flows enabling Write-Back directly from your reports

Continuous ingestion from storage to Eventhouse for near real-time data flows

Keyvault support in connections

Variable Libraries

Whether you're focused on data engineering, analytics, or solution architecture, join us to get up to speed on what's new and learn how to put these capabilities to work in your environment.

Why You Should Come:

In-Person Networking with fellow professionals and enthusiasts

A fun community raffle

Delicious Brazilian finger food snacks

Help grow the community—invite your friends and colleagues!

Let’s strengthen our knowledge and our network—together. Don’t miss it!

Fabric Databases and Vector Search in AI Solutions

DennesTorres — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:22:44 GMT

Discover how Fabric Databases work and how you can use vector search in Fabric Databases over relational data to build better AI architectures.

This is a meeting of the Malta Data Platform User Group. As in every meeting, we will have two sessions, with two different subjects: An introductory subject to data platform and an advanced subject in data platform and AI.

First Session:

Data Modelling for intelligence solutions and implementing Slowly Changing Dimensions

Discover how to design a star model and the importance of Slowly Changing Dimensions and how they should be planned

Second Session:

Fabric Databases and Vector Search in AI Solutions

In one session, discover two great new resources in Microsoft Data Platform.

Fabric Databases are a great Fabric feature which simplifies the use of cloud databases as SaaS and provides great benefits for the isolation of Production and Analytics platform.

Last meeting we talked about how the production and analytical platform should be different databases. The Fabric Databases make this much easier.

Vector Search is also included with Fabric Databases. This feature in a relational database has the potential to change AI RAG architectures in many ways. Let's discover how it works and what are the possibilities of this feature.

Malta Data Saturday

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:30:18 GMT

This conference is made by the community to meet the need of the community. All the speakers and organization team are volunteers, staying awake until late at night to prepare a great experience and learn opportunity for you. You will decide how the conference should be: You can vote for the speakers and sessions we will include in our conference. As every community member, we also ask your help: spread the world about this conference and how attending this conference can help on your career evolution So far we have received 164 sessions from 54 fabolous speakers. Impresive, right? Vote for them!

BUILD Power BI After Party: Everything you would like to know about Datamarts

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:30:19 GMT

This is an after party session to talk about the news and announcements from BUILD. If you watched BUILD sessions, bring your questions. If you didn't, you have another chance. Let's talk about Power BI Datamarts, a huge turning point in Power BI technology, improving the Power BI capability to do data exploratory analysis Submit your questions before the session using this form: https://forms.office.com/r/Ptt1vLPXHd It's important to access the online link after confirming the presence, a small registration will be required and you will receive an e-mail with the link to access the event

BUILD SQL After Party: SQL Ledger - The Power of Blockchain with SQL simplicity

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:30:20 GMT

This is a BUILD After Party meetup to talk about the news announced during Microsoft BUILD conference On this meetup we will talk about SQL Ledger, available in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2022 and announced as GA during the BUILD Come to discover how the security can reach a complete new level where not even the CEO would be capable to tamper the database without leaving an audit trail It's important to access the online link after confirming the presence, a small registration will be required and you will receive an e-mail with the link to access the event

Chat with Your Data Using Fabric and Open AI

DennesTorres — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:32:09 GMT

Discover how to use Open AI with Microsoft Fabric to talk directly to your model and get the results you need.

Fabric and OneLake: The Delta format secrets

DennesTorres — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:33:19 GMT

Microsoft Fabric PaaS environment makes the creation of our Data Platform very simple.

Instead of having a lot of work with the technical aspects ofr our architecture, we can focus on functional decisions which will define how our architecture will scale and perform.

Let's talk about some specific behaviours of the Delta Format which can affect our data platform architecture

Git Source Control In Power BI and Fabric

DennesTorres — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:33:21 GMT

Git support is a long awaited feature in Power BI. It's finally available in Power BI Desktop and Microsoft Fabric Portal (former Power BI Portal).

Let's discover how it works.

Microsoft Fabric : Enabling Data Mesh and Transforming your company's Data

DennesTorres — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:33:51 GMT

Discover how Microsoft and Data Mesh are closely related, enabling the distribution of responsibilities according to Data Mesh principles and with all the power of Microsoft Fabric to empower individual domains and coordinate the distribution