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  • Microsoft is supercharging AI workflows with Fabric updates, seamlessly bridging transactional data and cutting-edge AI tools. Let’s dive in! 

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Microsoft accelerates enterprise AI with new updates to Fabric, enabling seamless integration of transactional data and advanced AI capabilities.

 Key Points:

  • Microsoft integrates Azure SQL and other transactional databases with Fabric for unified AI-driven data operations.

  • New tools simplify data exploration, governance, and management across Fabric’s open lakehouse architecture.

  • Simplified APIs and enhanced AI skills enable natural language queries, sentiment analysis, and advanced analytics.

  • Features like Real-Time Intelligence and workspace monitoring improve scalability, governance, and operational efficiency. 

Details:

Fabric, Microsoft’s unified SaaS platform, now integrates transactional databases like Azure SQL and Cosmos DB directly into its OneLake architecture. This advancement allows developers to access live transactional data and bulk analytics from one seamless interface, enabling next-gen AI apps. 

The new OneLake catalog adds "Explore" and "Govern" tabs for better data management and oversight. Meanwhile, Fabric notebooks now preview simplified APIs for AI text enrichment tasks and conversational AI features that can query data using natural language.