General availability: Data flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse now support Reserved Instances

Analytics, Analysis Services

With a recent update of the Analysis Services Tabular engine in Azure Analysis Services (AAS) and in Power BI, Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) clients, such as Microsoft Excel, can now enjoy…

07/10/2020

Analytics, HDInsight

You can now create Azure HDInsight with restricted public connectivity resulting in a more secure networking infrastructure.

15/10/2021

Analytics, HDInsight

HDInsight now fully supports distributions of Apache analytics projects in-house. Plus, in the coming months, we’re launching the next generation of HDInsight with new and improved features.

21/07/2020

Analytics, Power BI Embedded

Self-service big data prep, called dataflows, is now available in Power BI Embedded.

18/12/2018

Analytics, Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse SQL on-demand is now enforcing TLS 1.2 for outbound connections used by all SQL client applications.

10/09/2020

Analytics, Databricks

Sweden Central and West Central US regions added to Azure Databricks.

08/06/2022

Analytics, Power BI Embedded

Power BI Embedded now has the capability to set a basic filter as a single selection filter. To do this, when editing the report, select the checkbox that says Require…

18/02/2020

Analytics, Databricks

Unity Catalog is a unified and fine-grained governance solution for all data assets in your Lakehouse.

31/08/2022

Analytics, Data Explorer

The next version of Azure Data Explorer (ADX) with performance updates is now available.

17/03/2021

Analytics, Data Factory

Gantt views are now available for monitoring data factory pipelines.

05/08/2019

Analytics, Data Factory

Azure Data Factory is now available in the South Africa North region.

27/01/2020

Analytics, Data Factory

Azure Data Factory now supports copying data into Azure Database for MySQL. Use the Copy Activity feature to load data into Azure Database for MySQL from any supported data sources.

18/09/2019