Releasesby GlyphBigQuery connections for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL are in preview
Google Cloud introduced BigQuery federated query connections to MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL in public preview.
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AI Function task support in Declarative Automation Bundles (Beta)
Databricks introduced Beta support for AI Function tasks within Declarative Automation Bundles.
Give agents only the access they need
Buildkite released token permissions and queue scopes for agent tokens, allowing teams to restrict agent capabilities and limit job acceptance to specific queues.
Many-to-many relationships in semantic views (Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI launched a public preview for modeling many-to-many relationships between logical tables within semantic views.
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in December
GitHub announced the upcoming deprecation of several Copilot models on December 14, 2026, including Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Grok 4.6.
Aurora PostgreSQL with express configuration now supported in CloudFormation
AWS added support for Aurora PostgreSQL express configuration in CloudFormation, enabling single-property automated cluster creation and faster serverless database setup.
Deploy pg\_pinecone to Render or Railway
Pinecone released one-click templates to deploy pg_pinecone on Render or Railway running PostgreSQL 18 with preloaded vector extensions.
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Table-level data lineage for BigQuery pipelines in Knowledge Catalog is GA
Google Cloud made table-level data lineage in Knowledge Catalog generally available for BigQuery pipelines, enabling tracking of data flow across pipelines.
BigQuery generative AI functions support Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BigQuery generative AI functions now support the Gemini 4 Hydrogen model in general availability.
BigQuery project caps are generally available
Project caps, also known as scheduling policies, are now generally available for BigQuery Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions. This feature allows users to limit maximum slots and concurrency per project within a reservation.
BigQuery reservation assignments support principal routing
BigQuery now allows specifying a principal property on reservation assignments to route queries to specific reservations based on the identity of the user or service account. This feature is generally available for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions.
BigQuery JSON_FLATTEN function is generally available
The JSON_FLATTEN function is now generally available. It extracts non-array values from JSON inputs, including those nested within consecutive arrays.
BigQuery GRAPH_EXPAND supports graph measures and multiple fact tables
Google Cloud updated BigQuery graph features, adding graph measure support to lock aggregations to keys and updating the GRAPH_EXPAND TVF to support multiple fact tables.
BigQuery generative AI functions support gemini-4-carbon
Google Cloud announced general availability for the gemini-4-carbon model across BigQuery generative AI functions.
BigQuery compute cost attribution is available in preview
BigQuery now supports compute cost attribution in preview, allowing users to track billed compute charges at the project level based on reservation capacity usage for FinOps reporting.