Announcing General Availability: Publish to Microsoft Power BI Service from Unity CatalogOctober 28, 2024 by Can Efeoglu, Sachin Thakur and Jade Wang in Platform Blog We're excited to announce the General Availability of Publish to Microsoft Power BI Service from Unity Catalog, an integration that makes it easy...
Five Simple Steps for Implementing a Star Schema in Databricks With Delta LakeSeptember 12, 2024 by Cary Moore, Lucas Bilbro and Brenner Heintz in Platform Blog We are updating this blog to show developers how to leverage the latest features of Databricks and the advancements in Spark. Most data...
Primary Key and Foreign Key constraints are GA and now enable faster queriesJuly 24, 2024 by Xinyi Yu, Justin Talbot and Serge Rielau in Engineering Blog Dataricks is thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Primary Key (PK) and Foreign Key (FK) constraints, starting in Databricks Runtime 15.2...
Announcing the Public Preview of AI/BI Dashboards!September 28, 2023 by Clark Wildenradt, Chao Cai, Cyrielle Simeone, Erika Ehrli, Ken Wong, Justin Talbot, Miranda Luna, Reynold Xin and Rory Jacobs in Platform Blog We are excited to announce the public preview of the next generation of Databricks SQL dashboards, dubbed AI/BI Dashboards . Available today, this...
Introducing the Support of Lateral Column AliasSeptember 19, 2023 by Xinyi Yu, Wenchen Fan and Gengliang Wang in Engineering Blog We are thrilled to introduce the support of a new SQL feature in Apache Spark and Databricks: Lateral Column Alias (LCA). This feature...
Introducing Lakehouse Federation Capabilities in Unity CatalogJune 28, 2023 by Matei Zaharia, Andrew Li, Can Efeoglu, Cyrielle Simeone, Sachin Thakur and Daniel Tenedorio in Platform Blog Lakehouse Federation is now in public preview! Data teams face many challenges to quickly access the right data primarily due to data fragmentation...
Introducing Materialized Views and Streaming Tables for Databricks SQLJune 28, 2023 by Paul Lappas, Michael Armbrust, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Nitin Sharma and Andreas Neumann in Platform Blog We are thrilled to announce that materialized views and streaming tables are now publicly available in Databricks SQL on AWS and Azure. Streaming...
A guide to Databricks SQL and Data Warehousing talks at Data + AI Summit 2023June 14, 2023 by Cyrielle Simeone, Miranda Luna and Shant Hovsepian in Engineering Blog It's been only 18 months since we announced Databricks SQL general availability - the serverless data warehouse on the Lakehouse - and we...
Announcing the General Availability of Databricks SQL Serverless !May 18, 2023 by Cyrielle Simeone, Shant Hovsepian and Gaurav Saraf in Platform Blog Today, we are thrilled to announce that serverless compute for Databricks SQL is Generally Available on AWS and Azure! Databricks SQL (DB SQL)...
Understanding Caching in Databricks SQL: UI, Result, and Disk CachesMay 4, 2023 by Jeremy Lewallen, Chris Stevens, Bogdan Ionut Ghit and Patrick Yang in Data Warehousing Caching is an essential technique for improving the performance of data warehouse systems by avoiding the need to recompute or fetch the same...