Rename views with ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO

UpdateJul 16, 2026Verified

Views in a MotherDuck catalog can now be renamed using ALTER TABLE <view> RENAME TO <new_name>.

Governance Observability

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Snowflake

DCM Projects: New capabilities (Preview)

DCM Projects now supports the following capabilities in preview: For more information, see Supported object types in DCM Projects and Deploy and manage DCM Projects .

PreviewJul 16

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Snowflake

VOLATILE scalar UDFs are supported with dynamic table incremental refresh (General availability)

VOLATILE scalar user-defined functions (UDFs) are now supported with dynamic table incremental refresh in INCREMENTAL, AUTO, and ADAPTIVE refresh modes. This applies to scalar UDFs written in Python, Java, Scala, JavaScript, and SQL. For incremental refresh, VOLATILE UDFs are supported only in the SELECT clause.

GAJul 16

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Databricks Unity Catalog

Scala and Java UDFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available

Register Scala and Java user-defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog and reuse them across notebooks, jobs, and SQL warehouses with Unity Catalog governance. Reuse existing JVM logic and get better performance than Python UDFs on all compute, including serverless. See Scala and Java user-defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog .

GAJul 16

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Databricks Agent Bricks and Mosaic AI

MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now generally available

MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog tables is now generally available. Databricks recommends storing traces in Unity Catalog for new and production workloads: storage is unlimited, traces are stored in OpenTelemetry (OTel) format, access is governed through Unity Catalog schema and table permissions, and you can query traces with SQL, Genie, AI/BI...

GAJul 16

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Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Agentic code converter is in Beta

The agentic code converter is in Beta . Use it to convert legacy SQL dialects, such as T-SQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, BigQuery, and Teradata, to ANSI SQL in migration projects in your workspace.

BetaJul 16

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Databricks Agent Bricks and Mosaic AI

Google Gemini 3 Pro is retired

Google Gemini 3 Pro is retired. Gemini 3.1 Pro is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.

DeprecationJul 16

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MotherDuck on AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney and Tokyo)

MotherDuck is now available on AWS in ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) and ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo) for lower latency and regional data residency. Flights were not yet available in these regions at launch.

UpdateJul 16

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Run a Flight with a custom config override

In the Flights UI, the Run now menu lets users override config values for a single run without editing the Flight itself.

UpdateJul 16

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Scheduled Flights available on the Lite plan

Lite plan customers can now schedule Flight runs without per-user Flight or concurrency limits.

PricingJul 16

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Role-based access control (RBAC) on Business and Enterprise

Admins can assign roles and grant scoped privileges on databases, shares, and platform resources from the Members and Roles page. RBAC is on Business and Enterprise plans; custom roles are also available for Enterprise.

UpdateJul 23

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