Releasesby GlyphCREATE OR ALTER SECRET, DCM Projects DEFINE SECRET, and environment variables (Preview)
Snowflake introduced a public preview of DEFINE SECRET and environment variables for DCM Projects, enabling declarative secret management and parameter masking.
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Microsoft Graph Logs connector is available in Beta
The Microsoft Graph Logs connector is now in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of security alerts from Microsoft security products.
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.
Gemini Notebook Enterprise: Visual refresh
Gemini Notebook Enterprise features a refreshed UI, new audio language selection, and custom summary options, all now generally available.
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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.
Tri-Secret Secure for Snowflake storage for Apache Iceberg™ tables (General availability)
Tri-Secret Secure is now generally available for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables on AWS and Azure, enabling customer-managed encryption keys.
Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork can research the web
Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork can now incorporate web search results into investigations, providing citations alongside internal data.
UUID data type in hybrid tables (General availability)
The UUID data type is now generally available for use in Snowflake hybrid tables, supporting primary keys, foreign keys, and secondary indexes.
Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
Snowflake has released updates for its Data Clean Rooms product.
Check the quotas that apply to you with MY_BUDGET_SUMMARY (General availability)
The MY_BUDGET_SUMMARY table function is now generally available. It allows users to programmatically check their per-user quotas, current usage, and block status within Snowflake.
Request Access in Workspaces (General availability)
The Request Access feature in Workspaces is now generally available, allowing users to request access to resources directly within the interface.