Releasesby GlyphBigQuery supports Apache Arrow format for query results
BigQuery now supports retrieving query results in Apache Arrow format. This preview feature improves serialization efficiency and retrieval speed.
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Microsoft Graph Logs connector is available in Beta
The Microsoft Graph Logs connector is now in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of security alerts from Microsoft security products.
Hybrid table support for Google Cloud (Preview)
Snowflake hybrid tables are now supported in all Google Cloud commercial regions in preview.
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available, allowing authentication via external identity providers.
[In preview] Public Preview: Support database-level managed identity (including FIC) in Create Database Scoped Credential T-SQL
Users can now assign a user-assigned managed identity to individual databases in Azure SQL Database. This enables secure access to files in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Storage Gen2 via external tables and OPENROWSET.
GPT-6 Rosalind released for biological research
GPT-6 Rosalind is a specialized model for biological reasoning and scientific tool use. It is available to approved organizations for internal research.
Track Unity Gateway skill usage with audit logs and the usage dashboard
Users can now track Unity Gateway Skill usage through audit logs and a dedicated dashboard. The dashboard provides visibility into downloads, loads, and user activity.
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BigQuery Studio Git repository integration is generally available
BigQuery Studio now supports folder-based integration with remote Git repositories for version control of SQL scripts and notebooks.
Data Engineering Agent integrates with Google Drive
The Data Engineering Agent now supports Google Drive as an input source, allowing users to use Google Sheets, CSV, or JSONL files in data pipelines.
Conversational analytics in Connected Sheets is generally available
Connected Sheets now supports conversational analytics, allowing users to use natural language to query BigQuery data. The Gemini side panel translates questions into SQL and inserts live database objects into workbooks.
AI.COUNT_TOKENS function is generally available
The AI.COUNT_TOKENS function, which estimates the token count of a text string, is now generally available in BigQuery.
Conversation logging for Conversational analytics in BigQuery is generally available
BigQuery now supports logging data agent conversations directly to a BigQuery table within the agent's project.
BigQuery Python user-defined functions support volume mounts in preview
Python user-defined functions in BigQuery now support volume mounts, allowing users to access dependency files directly from Cloud Storage.
BigQuery REGEXP_EXTRACT_GROUPS function is in preview
The new REGEXP_EXTRACT_GROUPS function allows users to extract substrings matching multiple capturing groups in a regular expression.
The AI.TRANSLATE function is generally available
The AI.TRANSLATE function is now generally available in BigQuery. It supports both standard Neural Machine Translation and Translation LLM capabilities for text string translation.