Hello everyone, last week was PACKED full of announcements, and Fabric news, and new features. If you missed all the announcements, you can get up-to-speed by reading this blog post. Whether you were at FabCon or not, I'm curious, which of these announcements got you most excited?! And, most importantly... why? Let me know in the comments below!

I don't know if anyone else is excited about the deprecation of Default Semantic Models, but I surely am. We NEVER use them and always build our own for various reason. I love that they are going away and will no longer clutter up our workspaces. How does everyone else feel? Anyone here actually use them for production? Sunsetting Default Semantic Models – Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric

Yesterday, Microsoft introduced two new functions to the Fabric Data Warehouse, you can read more about them in their blog posts here: OPENROWSET ( Press Release || Documentation ) OPENROWSET allows you to preview the data inside a CSV or Parquet in ADLS GEn2 or Azure Blob. Can also be used with INSERT INTO to pre-filter/ transform data from a CSV/Parquet into a Warehouse table. BULK INSERT ( Press Release || Documentation ) BULK INSERT is very similar to COPY INTO, but provides a few extra configuration options: - CODEPAGE: This option allows you to load textual files encoded using national encoding. - DATAFILETYPE: This option enables you to read single- or double-byte file formats or native formats produced by SQL Server on-premises. - FORMATFILE: This option allows you to define column and type mappings in a separate textual or XML format file. How are you going to be using OPENROWSET and BULK INSERT?

Wouldn't it be nice if it was easy to create items with a Service Principal owner? Would promote good practices! What are your thoughts?

Hey everyone, I know many of you are currently struggling to get started with Fabric. You can provide Microsoft with some valuable feedback to share your experiences about getting started with Fabric, and the free trial experience: Feedback form for new Fabric developers: https://aka.ms/FabricGettingStartedFeedbackDoc?wt.mc_id=onboardingresearch_includes_content_cnl_learncomm Hopefully we can make it a better experience for all.