Releasesby GlyphBigQuery query text heatmap supports persistent and temporary UDFs
BigQuery query text heatmap in the query execution graph now supports displaying SQL text for both persistent and temporary user-defined functions (UDFs) in general availability.
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Use GPT-6-Cyber to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in an authorized test environment, and verify
OpenAI has released GPT-6-Cyber, a model designed to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in authorized environments, and verify fixes.
Announcing Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Web Answer is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It provides a managed tool that returns synthesized, cited answers grounded in web sources in a single call.
Amazon DynamoDB now supports bulk put items
Bulk put items for Amazon DynamoDB is now generally available, allowing users to write data from Amazon S3 into DynamoDB tables without building custom ingestion pipelines.
New pull request overview page in public preview
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More external knowledge sources
Databricks announced plans to support Tableau and Sigma as external knowledge sources for AI/BI and Genie.
External knowledge sources are in Beta
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The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been removed
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Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) location
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BigQuery query text heatmap adds hierarchical context reference navigation
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BigQuery Graph and GQL queries are available with on-demand pricing
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BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Shopify deprecates specific fields
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BigQuery adds organization policy controls for models in preview
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In BigQuery Studio , the left pane has been updated with new tab names
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You can now use persistent and temporary SQL user-defined functions (UDFs) in BigQuery continuous queries to...
You can now use persistent and temporary SQL user-defined functions (UDFs) in BigQuery continuous queries to encapsulate and reuse custom real-time transformation logic. Only SQL UDFs are supported in continuous queries.