​📅 May 2026 

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The Law of Accumulation is real!

Community

Join the Arizona Data Platform User Group | Meetup

​​​​Foundry IQ

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• AI Agents with Claude:

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• AI Search:

  • Azure AI Search Serverless Private Preview- 5/22/2026- a new consumption-based offering for Azure AI Search that removes the need to provision and manually scale dedicated compute resources of our current SKUs. Instead of selecting a pricing tier and configuring replicas and partitions, you simply create a search service and start using it. The infrastructure scales automatically based on your workload.

• Foundry IQ Badge:

  • Foundry IQ End-to-End

  • Building the Data Pipeline with Knowledge Sources

  • Querying the Multi-Source AI Knowledge Bases

Fabric IQ​​​

• Data Agents:​​

This four‑part series guides attendees through the intricacies of Microsoft Fabric Data Agents - from understanding how agents reason over data, to designing AI‑ready data foundations, selecting the right consumption architectures, and operating agents safely at scale

• Part 3

• Part 4 - Operating & Architecting with Data Agents: Patterns, Risk, and Trust at Scale

• Fabric Data Agent - Community Hub for Microsoft Fabric Data Agent

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• Data Agent Service Principal

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• Ontology:

  • Microsoft Fabric Ontology Innovation Challenge 5/14/2026

    • University Class Search - Microsoft Fabric Community

    • Ontology Playground (Preview) | Interactive Ontology Explorer

  • Fabric IQ Ontology Knowledge Source in Foundry IQ Private Preview 

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Unstructured Data - Fabric AI workflows

• UN001 🟢 TEXT & AI Primer 1: Use Cases

• UN002 🟢 TEXT & AI Primer 2: Key terms & concepts

• UN003 🟢 TEXT & AI Primer 3: Fabric & Azure AI

• UN004 🟢 AI Functions for easy text transforms

MCP Workflows

• MCP001🔶 Power BI MCP with GitHub Copilot

  • MCP001 Extension - Power BI MCP with Codex

• MCP002 🔶 Using the Fabric Data Agent MCP Server

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Fabric Dojo 8 Part Summer Series Sprint​​

• ​Week 1: Python for Fabric to leverage AI

  • PY001 🟢 Python Fundamentals for Fabric (Part 1)​

  • PY002 🟢 Python Fundamentals (Part 2)

  • LH022 🟢 notebookutils (Notebook Utilities)

  • LH023 🔶 Magic commands (%run and %%configure)

• ​Week 2: (Python & Lakehouse II)

  • LH024 🟢 Intro to Materialized Lake Views​

  • LH025 🔶 MLV Refresh, Scheduling & Monitoring

  • LH026 🟢 MLVs for Data Quality

• ​Week 3: Identity, Governance, Security, Part 1​

  • Recording: Understanding Identity & Connections in Fabric​

  • Using Spark without throttling/concurrency errors, spark workspace settings in depth

DP-800

Microsoft’s new certification for building AI‑enabled database solutions across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric. The series breaks the exam down into clear, practical sessions that map directly to real-world database development.  Study Guide for Exam DP-800: Developing AI-Enabled Database Solutions | Microsoft Learn

• Microsoft Series: 

  • Get Certified: SQL AI Developer DP-800 Exam Tour 5/5/2026

  • Get Certified SQL+AI (DP-800): Design and Develop SQL Solutions Like a Pro 5/19/2026

  • Get Certified SQL+AI (DP-800): Secure and Ship SQL Solutions with Confidence 5/21/2026

  • Get Certified SQL+AI (DP-800): Bring AI to SQL with Embeddings, Search, and RAG 5/26/2026

  • Get Certified SQL+AI (DP-800): Prepare for exam day 6/10/2026

• Udemy - DP-800 Microsoft SQL AI Developer Associate Exam Prep

  • Build AI-powered SQL solutions using Azure SQL, embeddings, and external models

  • Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using T-SQL

  • Apply advanced SQL features like JSON, graph queries, and stored procedures for AI scenarios

  • Secure and optimize AI-driven databases using encryption, indexing, and performance tuning

GitHub & GitHub-Copilot​​​​​

• GH-600 - The Agentic AI Developer, 

  • Skills Blog​

• Study guide for Exam GH-900: GitHub Foundations - This includes understanding Git, repositories, collaboration tools, project management, and modern development practices. 

  • GitHub Foundations Part 1 of 2 - completed 5/16/2026​

  • GitHub Foundations Part 2 of 2 - completed 5/23/2026​

• Study guide for Exam GH-300: GitHub Copilot - possess expertise in using GitHub Copilot to improve software development productivity, quality, and security. This includes responsible AI use, prompt engineering, Copilot features across various plans, and privacy safeguards. Candidates should also be familiar with GitHub fundamentals and have experience with one or more programming languages.