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User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)

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User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI ( + menu > Skills > Create new ), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills , then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.

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Data movement policies (General availability)

With this release, data movement policies are now generally available for Enterprise Edition (or higher). Data movement policies are part of Snowflake’s data exfiltration protection controls. These SQL-style conditional policies can help you limit, alert on, or block data movement operations based on specific movement types.

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Organization Features in Organization Command Center (Preview)

Organization Features is now in preview in Organization Command Center. From the organization account, a user with the GLOBALORGADMIN role can open Organization Hub » Command center , then the Organization Features tile, to see which organization-level capabilities are enabled. In preview, the main control is premium views for cross-account telemetry.

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Organization Command Center 3rd party access configuration (Preview)

3rd party access configuration is now in preview in Organization Command Center. From the organization account, a user with the GLOBALORGADMIN role can open Organization Hub » Command center , then the 3rd party access configuration tile, to classify member accounts as internal or external, set the default tenant type for new accounts, and maintain allowed...

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Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates

Clean room UI users: New updates are applied to the UI automatically when a user starts a new session after a new update is deployed. To ensure new updates are applied, make sure to log out and log back into the UI. Clean room API users: API updates are applied either manually or automatically to an account. Learn how to manage updates for Data Clean Rooms.

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Feature policy rules (General availability)

With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of feature policy rules. A feature policy can carry a YAML body that conditionally blocks object creation based on attributes of the request. For example, you can permit tables in general but block temporary tables, or permit tasks but block serverless (no-warehouse) tasks.

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CREATE OR ALTER support for dynamic Apache Iceberg™ tables

You can now use CREATE OR ALTER DYNAMIC ICEBERG TABLE to create a dynamic Apache Iceberg™ table if it doesn’t exist or alter an existing one in place. The statement represents the complete target state: properties you don’t specify reset to their default values, and the command doesn’t trigger a refresh by itself.

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Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates

Clean room UI users: New updates are applied to the UI automatically when a user starts a new session after a new update is deployed. To ensure new updates are applied, make sure to log out and log back into the UI. Clean room API users: API updates are applied either manually or automatically to an account. Learn how to manage updates for Data Clean Rooms.

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