🔹 Feature: SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric
🔹 What It Does: A fully managed, cloud-native SQL engine inside Fabric — built for operational workloads, AI apps, and the data plumbing that powers analytics.
💡 Where teams actually use it:
Meta-driven pipelines
Power BI writebacks
Reference data store
Operational data store (ODS)
Line of business Power Apps + Translytical
Vector and AI app dev
Event-driven apps
Reverse ETL
🆕 What’s New:
✅ Migration Experience in Fabric: Move existing SQL workloads into Fabric with a guided in-portal experience — no more manual schema/data juggling.
schema/data juggling.
✅ Point-in-Time Restore for Dropped Databases: Accidentally deleted database? Recover it to any point in time within retention — safety net built in.
✅ List Deleted Databases by Workspace: Full visibility of what was dropped and when — no more guessing during recovery.
✅Pre/Post Deployment Actions: Hook custom logic into your SQL project deployments — seed data, set permissions, run validations automatically.
✅ Custom Table Selection for Mirroring: Pick exactly which tables get mirrored to OneLake — control cost, scope, and refresh patterns per workload.
✅ SQL Projects Open in SSMS: Edit and manage Fabric SQL projects directly from SSMS — the tool every DBA already lives in.
🚀 The shift: Fabric SQL is becoming a full database platform — not just a side workload in Fabric. Migration, recovery, deployment automation, and SSMS parity are the production-grade table stakes now delivered.
🌐 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/fundamentals/whats-new
