Another post on my favorite topic: Governance and Administration!
With all the Fabric announcements in the last months, some of the Admin announcements might have slipped through. As you might know, the Admin part of Fabric is dear to my heart. I've posted about it earlier here, here, here, and here, to name a few 😀.
So in the next weeks I am going to highlight a few things with short, informative posts.
I decided to leave "Governance & Administration" out of the titles of my blog posts from now on.
The titles were getting a bit lengthy, just because I wanted to include the focus on Governance & Administration. I am already using labels which you can use for that: Governance, Administration, etc..
UPDATE 2025-03-12:
Microsoft released an update on the rollout of the changes to this setting. The actual enablement is postponed for 20 days to March 28. The timelines mentioned in the blog below are now:
- February 28, 2025 - Checkbox notification rolled out globally.
- March 8, 2025 - Infobox will display this as the enablement date.
- March 28, 2025 - Actual enablement date for tenants that take no action.
Extending flexibility: default checkbox changes on tenant settings for SQL database in Fabric
Microsoft 365 Message Center
Changes to SQL Database Tenant Setting
M365 Message Center for Non-Admins

Multiple other blog posts were written on the Fabric blog, but none of them explicitly mentioned any of this:
- Feb 12: Govern your data in SQL database in Microsoft Fabric with protection policies in Microsoft Purview
- Feb 19: Enhancing SQL database in Fabric: share your feedback and shape the future
- Feb 26: Why SQL database in Fabric is the best choice for low-code/no-code Developers
- There's a little link to Billing and utilization reporting for SQL database hidden in this blog post, which explains billing started at February 1st, but no mention of the tenant setting
Billing for SQL Database (preview)
So when the setting is changed to ON, and you don't run a trial, you can start seeing SQLDbNative on your Capacity Metrics App as explained here. 😉