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Moving off ODBC — A self-serve scanner for your ADBC migration

Microsoft Fabric Blog7h4 min read

If your Fabric workspace connects to an ODBC driver, and you haven’t already moved to the ADBC driver, you’re on the ODBC → ADBC migration path. The migration window is already open — the sooner you start, the more room you have to validate. What’s happening Power Query is transitioning from legacy embedded ODBC drivers to Apache Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) drivers across Power BI Desktop and the Microsoft Fabric service. ADBC keeps data in the Arrow columnar format end-to-end, which can improve performance and reduce memory overhead for many workloads. The migration happens in two even

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