October '24 monthly Fabric rundown

As the year draws to a close, and with Ignite only a few weeks away, it comes a bit of a shock to get an October update. But don't let how small an update it is mean you miss something that was snuck out under the radar.

Power BI

Not much again on the Power BI front, really feels like we should start to expect no major announcements going forwards. Either that, or Microsoft are working on something big that's taking up all the Power BI resource. 

Only time will tell.

Saying that, one feature was hidden down in the data engineering space. That is you can now add notebooks to what used to be a Power BI app. It's going to need some thought on how we use this going forwards - a lot of users aren't going to want to run code, so bit of an edge case this one.

Data Engineering

The big update in this space is auto-binding on notebooks in deployment pipelines and with git integration is GA. This is huge (and yes it should have always done this, and yes the documentation has been wrong do date).

Until now, you've had to disconnect and re-connect your notebook either manually or programmatically. It has been a right pain. 

Now, if you have attached your notebook to an environment this relationship is maintained when both the Notebook and environment is added to git. On top of that, when you promote this with a deployment pipeline the auto-bind is respected. 

That's all the highlights this month, not really a shock with ignite around the corner. But stay tunned to what I'm sure will be some pretty substantial announcements.