Databricks SQL version 2026.38 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2026.38. The parse_sql function parses a SQL statement and returns structured JSON that contains statement ...

Lower cost, predictable at scale. Databricks separates storage and compute on cloud object storage, with serverless scaling ...

Spatial SQL and spatial joins are now supported in Lakehouse//RT and can run up to 38x faster than traditional data ...

Databricks and Snowflake are at it again, and the battleground is now SQL-based document parsing. In an intensifying race to dominate enterprise AI workloads with agent-driven automation, Databricks ...

The Databricks SQL MCP server lets agents run AI-generated SQL against your Unity Catalog tables to read and write data, with access governed by Unity Catalog permissions. Queries run asynchronously: ...

End-to-end starter code for landing on-premise / cloud SQL Server data into Databricks (Unity Catalog, medallion architecture) so it can be queried by AI/BI Genie. The pattern: daily incremental JDBC ...

Banks building AI agents on Databricks can now point them at ActiveViam's risk engine rather than have a language model ...

I have organized the major announcements from Databricks and Snowflake since 2014 into a single timeline and examined the ...

A metadata-driven accelerator for migrating Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server tables to Databricks Delta tables governed by Unity Catalog. Shared notebooks route every control-table row through a source ...