Developer excludes Warehouse from Fabric pipeline to prevent schema resets

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A developer building a Microsoft Fabric CI/CD deployment pipeline deliberately excluded the Warehouse item type from the 16 supported deployment targets. The decision stemmed from a critical risk: publishing a Warehouse through the standard pipeline can reset its schema, a failure mode deemed too dangerous to leave to documentation alone. Rather than including it with caveats, the developer chose to handle Warehouse deployment as a separate process and clearly document the limitation. To prevent accidental re-inclusion, a dedicated unit test asserts that Warehouse remains absent from the default item types list. The developer acknowledges this is a deferral, not a solution, and flags it openly as a known limitation of the current pipeline.

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