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Ignite 2024 - What's been announced for Microsoft Fabric

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With how popular my thoughts after Fabcon EU's keynote, I thought I'd do the same with the announcements out of Ignite. Again, we follow the themes of AI everywhere- with announcements grouped into: AI-powered Data platform Open and AI-ready data Lake AI-enabled business users Mission-critical foundation On top of these themes, we're seeing the number of items without CI/CD support being reduced. Long overdue, but at least it's now being resolved - and will be gone by the end of the year. AI-powered data platform This grouping is all about providing data teams with the tools they need to do their jobs. SQL Databases First up, we have SQL databases as a new Fabric component - basically a SaaS version of the Azure SQL DB that has been used for years. At face value, it seems like it's a small change but actually when you think about it, this looks to be a shift from Fabric being a purely analytical platform to an analytical and operational platform. Especially when you...