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Microsoft's unified analytics platform whose capacity units (CUs) meter Warehouse and Lakehouse compute.
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Microsoft made Fabric IQ the default business context for Microsoft 365 Copilot at FabCon Barcelona and opened it to outside agents over MCP. The metric definitions teams keep in Power BI semantic models now shape what those agents answer.
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AWS Community Builder Aki argues Apache Iceberg made data portable while permissions, auditing, lineage and sharing stay tied to each catalog. The spec leaves the atomic commit to each catalog, so the catalog is now the choice that is hard to reverse.
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Microsoft documents no configurable mirroring window, and support confirmed that restarting a mirror reloads the whole table instead of resuming from the last CDC position. The estate here has roughly 2,500 tables.
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Coverage extending to temporary cluster data removes the exact objection security reviewers used to block Spark workloads. The platform did not change much; the exception request did.
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From August 2026 Microsoft meters Fabric Data Warehouse by per-workspace virtual-node time, with a 60-second minimum. Sparse probes pay for idle allocation; dense ETL windows get the cheaper rate.
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