Releasesby Glyph[In preview] Public Preview: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose
You can now benefit from enhanced resilience with the public preview of zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose. This update helps you improve business continuity by automatically distributing your compute and data across a
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AI mode for sensitive data classification (Public Preview)
Sensitive data classification now supports AI mode in public preview. When you enable AI mode on a classification profile, Snowflake uses the OpenAI GPT-5 Mini model to identify additional semantic categories beyond those detected by standard classification, which can improve accuracy.
New SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view in Account Usage and Organization Usage (General availability)
The SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view is now generally available in the ACCOUNT_USAGE and ORGANIZATION_USAGE schemas. It provides a unified view of usage history for CoCo across the CLI, Desktop, and Snowsight interfaces. The information in the view includes the number of credits consumed each time a user interacts with CoCo.
Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column
The downstream_impact column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated. Deprecation begins September 7, 2026, and rolls out gradually across regions over the following week. Until the rollout reaches your workspace, you might still be able to query downstream_impact .
Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column
The root_cause_analysis column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated. Deprecation begins August 18, 2026, and rolls out gradually across regions over the following several days. Until the rollout reaches your workspace, you might still be able to query root_cause_analysis .
Session restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta
Restore the Python variables and Spark session from a serverless compute job run into a new interactive notebook, so you can debug a failure or explore results without rerunning the job. Databricks automatically captures a state snapshot when an eligible run fails, runs 30 minutes or longer, or is cancelled, and keeps it for 7 days after the run completes.
Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta)
Identity attributes are in Beta. You can now write Unity Catalog ABAC column mask policy conditions that target users by attributes synced from your identity provider, such as department or country , in addition to group membership.
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