Releasesby GlyphRelationships between metric views (Beta)
Unity Catalog now supports defining relationships between metric views using SQL constraints. This helps AI assistants and BI tools identify correct join paths.
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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.
Spanner supports equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values
Spanner now allows equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values directly in GROUP_BY and ORDER BY clauses. It also supports implicit type coercion and search indexes for JSON equality operations.
[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.
Inference request metadata logging (GA)
Inference request metadata logging is now generally available for Gemini and Claude models. It records model usage, latency, and error codes without capturing prompt or response content.
Computer use tool is available in General Availability
The Computer use tool is now generally available with new safety governance features. Administrators can configure organization-wide guardrails for sensitive actions like financial transactions or data modification.
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Native XML file format support is now generally available
Native XML file format support is now generally available. You can ingest, query, and parse XML files in batch or streaming workloads with Auto Loader, read_files , and COPY INTO , and use the from_xml and schema_of_xml SQL functions. See Read and write XML files .
Databricks SQL version 2026.43 is rolling out in Current
Databricks SQL version 2026.43 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2026.43 .
Databricks SQL version 2026.43 is now available in Preview
Databricks SQL version 2026.43 is now available in the Preview channel. This version includes the following changes: Operating system security updates. Miscellaneous bug fixes. This version doesn't include new features or behavioral changes.
Databricks SQL version 2026.42 is rolling out in Current
Databricks SQL version 2026.42 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2026.42 .
Databricks SQL version 2026.42 is now available in Preview
Databricks SQL version 2026.42 is now available in the Preview channel. This version includes the following changes: Operating system security updates. Miscellaneous bug fixes. This version doesn't include new features or behavioral changes.
Metric view window measures are generally available
Window measures in metric views are now generally available. Window measures define rolling window, cumulative, or semiadditive aggregations, such as moving averages, period-over-period changes, and running totals. See Window measures .
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW will soon preserve grants, comments and tags by default
Starting December 2, 2026, CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW will update views in-place, instead of dropping and re-creating the view. Grants, tags, and comments are preserved with two caveats: As views execute with view owner's permissions, grants are not preserved if a non-owner alters the view query via CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW You must first remove governed tags on...
Databricks SQL version 2026.39 is rolling out in Current
Databricks SQL version 2026.39 is rolling out to the Current channel.