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Microsoft announces Fabric advances for data in Copilot, agents, and apps

by MSDW Reporter
Editorial Team, MSDynamicsWorld.com

Microsoft announced a range of updates related to AI for Fabric this week as the company spoke to the community at the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference. 

Fabric IQ in Microsoft Copilot Chat and Cowork is now generally available. It allows users to ask business questions and receive answers grounded in governed Power BI data. Cowork can then use those results in its work. The team plans to integrate Fabric IQ with Copilot’s Code experience, too.

“For Power BI customers, this extends the semantic foundation they already have into Microsoft Copilot while preserving existing access controls and governance,” wrote Jessica Hawk, CVP of Azure product marketing. 

Other updates announced this week include: 

  • IQ Sharing in Fabric is now in preview as part of Fabric IQ. It enables organizations to securely share data while maintaining governance over the underlying assets. 
  • Fabric Apps is adding new capabilities for data connectivity, transactional workloads, backend logic, storage and policy-controlled access
  • New agentic data engineering features in Fabric allow engineers to define the outcome and set the boundaries for agents that plan and execute the work, validates the results, and refines the approach.
  • SQL Server on Azure Local has reached GA. 
  • Database Hub in Fabric is now in public preview. “It provides a central control plane for managing SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB and SQL databases in Fabric,” Hawk wrote.
  • Specialist database agents for SQL and PostgreSQL in Database Hub in Fabric and Visual Studio Code are coming soon to public preview. They are designed to help teams investigate issues, understand performance bottlenecks and identify optimization opportunities within their development environment.

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