End of Year Documentation Update 🚀

Om_Jha — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:19:47 GMT

GCP Documentation - Here’s a roundup of the most important GCP updates from the past month to help you quickly catch up on what’s new and relevant for your workloads.

Get started tutorials on Databricks (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)

GET STARTED

Sign up for Databricks Free Edition (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Migrate Community Edition workspaces to Free Edition (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
Get started tutorials on Databricks (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
What is Databricks One? (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Introduction to workspace objects (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Manage workspace objects (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Partner-powered AI features (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
What is Databricks Assistant? (Updated on Dec 22nd 2025)
Use Databricks Assistant (Updated on Dec 22nd 2025)
Customize and improve Databricks Assistant responses (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
Extend the Assistant with agent skills (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
Data guides (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Manage catalogs (Updated on Dec 13th 2025)
Limit catalog access to specific workspaces (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Manage schemas (Updated on Dec 113h 2025)
What are Unity Catalog volumes? (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Work with files in Unity Catalog volumes (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
Connect to a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) external location (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Connect to an AWS S3 external location (read-only) (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Connect to a Cloudflare R2 external location (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Specify a managed storage location in Unity Catalog (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Manage storage credentials (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Manage external locations (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Create service credentials (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Manage service credentials (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Use Unity Catalog service credentials to connect to external cloud services (Updated on Dec 22nd 2025)
Connect to managed ingestion sources (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
JDBC Unity Catalog connection (Updated on Dec 26th 2025)
Configure Microsoft Entra ID for SQL Server federation (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Lakehouse Federation performance recommendations (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Hive metastore federation: enable Unity Catalog to govern tables registered in a Hive metastore (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Enable Hive metastore federation for a legacy workspace Hive metastore (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Enable Hive metastore federation for an external Hive metastore (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Enable Snowflake catalog federation (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Notebook and SQL editor visualization types (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
Query variant data (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Optimize stateful processing with watermarks (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Sinks in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Using sinks in pipelines (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Prepare your data for GDPR compliance (Updated on Dec 23rd 2025)
Configure Pipelines (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Optimize the cluster utilization of Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines with Autoscaling (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Develop pipeline code with Python (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines Python language reference (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Functions to define datasets (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
CREATE FLOW (pipelines) (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Use streaming tables in Databricks SQL (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Use materialized views in Databricks SQL (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Configure materialized views in Databricks SQL (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Create your first workflow with Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Setup a recurring query with backfill support using Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Use dbt transformations in Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Use a Python wheel file in Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Create and run Scala and Java JARs on serverless compute (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Orchestrate Lakeflow Jobs with Apache Airflow (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Configure and edit Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Trigger a single job run (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Run jobs on a schedule (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Trigger jobs when new files arrive (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Run jobs continuously (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Control the flow of tasks within Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Best practices for configuring classic Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Jobs with a large number of tasks (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Backfill jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Power BI task for jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
dbt platform task for jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Create a Databricks compatible JAR (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Spark Submit Task Deprecation Notice & Migration Guide (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Configure task dependencies (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Manage identities, permissions, and privileges for Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Add notifications on a job (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Parameterize jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Configure job parameters (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Configure task parameters (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
What is a dynamic value reference? (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Use task values to pass information between tasks (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Access parameter values from a task (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Automate job creation and management (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Unity Catalog metric views (Updated on Dec 12th 2025)
Materialization for metric views (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Work with query parameters (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Databricks SQL alerts (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
What are legacy alerts? (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
Share data and AI assets securely (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
What is Delta Sharing? (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Set up Delta Sharing for your account (for providers) (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Read data shared using Databricks-to-Databricks Delta Sharing (for recipients) (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
Create a recipient object for non-Databricks users using bearer tokens (open sharing) (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Read data shared using Delta Sharing open sharing with bearer tokens (for recipients) (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Create and manage shares for Delta Sharing (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Access data shared with you using Delta Sharing (for recipients) (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Audit and monitor data sharing (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Troubleshoot common sharing issues in Delta Sharing (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
Access data products in Databricks Marketplace using external platforms (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Manage existing Databricks Marketplace listings (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
Create clean rooms (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Run notebooks in clean rooms (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Create and work with output tables in Databricks Clean Rooms (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Manage clean rooms (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Work with Databricks clean rooms as an invited collaborator (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

AI & ANALYTICS

Use foundation models (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Query a chat model (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Query vision models (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Query reasoning models (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Function calling on Databricks (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Databricks-hosted foundation models available in Foundation Model APIs (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Model units in provisioned throughput (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Foundation Model APIs limits and quotas (Updated on Dec 22nd 2025)
Foundation Model APIs compliance and security (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Foundation model REST API reference (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
Applicable model developer licenses and terms (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Custom models overview (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Query serving endpoints for custom models (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Serverless optimized deployments for model serving endpoints (Updated on Dec 29th 2025)
Pre-deployment validation for Model Serving (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Debugging guide for Model Serving (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning (Updated on Dec 5th 2025)
Databricks Runtime ML maintenance policy (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
What is AutoML? (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
AutoML Python API reference (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Databricks AI/BI (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Dashboards (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Use dashboard APIs to create and manage dashboards (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
Dataset optimization and caching (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Share a dashboard (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Embed a dashboard (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Basic dashboard embedding (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Manage scheduled dashboard updates and subscriptions (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Work with dashboard parameters (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Dashboard visualizations (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
AI/BI dashboard visualization types (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Table and pivot table visualizations (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
Dashboard limits (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
What is an AI/BI Genie space (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
Build a knowledge store for more reliable Genie spaces (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Curate an effective Genie space (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Troubleshoot Genie spaces (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Use a Genie space to explore business data (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Research Agent in Genie spaces (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
Use the Genie API to integrate Genie into your applications (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
What is consumer access? (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
AI/BI administration guide (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Manage AI/BI assets using APIs (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Configure Slack notifications (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Configure Microsoft Teams notifications (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)

PLATFORM

Data discovery and collaboration in the lakehouse (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Introduction to the well-architected data lakehouse (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Data lakehouse architecture: Databricks well-architected framework (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Performance efficiency for the data lakehouse (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Best practices for performance efficiency (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
Best practices for serverless compute (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Configure the serverless environment (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Serverless compute limitations (Updated on Dec 12th 2025)
Compute configuration reference (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Improve compute launch reliability using flexible node types (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Flexible node type compatibility reference (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Use the simple form to manage compute (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Allowlist libraries and init scripts on compute with standard access mode (formerly shared access mode) (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Standard compute requirements and limitations (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Install libraries from a package repository (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
View compute metrics (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
Gaps between Spark jobs (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Monitor a SQL warehouse (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Develop code in Databricks notebooks (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
Navigate the Databricks notebook and file editor (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Use the Data Science Agent (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
Databricks widgets (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Notebook compute resources (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
Create and manage scheduled notebook jobs (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Dashboards in notebooks (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Software engineering best practices for notebooks (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Known limitations Databricks notebooks (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Databricks tables concepts (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Convert an external table to a managed Unity Catalog table (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
What is Apache Iceberg in Databricks? (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Drop or replace a table (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Optimize data file layout (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Remove unused data files with vacuum (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Clone a table on Databricks (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Shallow clone for Unity Catalog tables (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Review table details with describe detail (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Enrich tables with custom metadata (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Use liquid clustering for tables (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Data skipping (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Control data file size (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Table size on Databricks (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Delta Lake feature compatibility and protocols (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
Deletion vectors in Databricks (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Use Delta Lake change data feed on Databricks (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Read Delta tables with Iceberg clients (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Optimize performance on the VARIANT data with shredding (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
Work with table history (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Update table schema (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Table properties reference (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Row filters and column masks (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Manually apply row filters and column masks (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Set Spark configuration properties on Databricks (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
Build a custom stateful application (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
PySpark basics (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
PySpark custom data sources (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
PySpark functions (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Develop on Databricks (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)

INTEGRATION

RStudio on Databricks (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
SQL language reference (Updated on Dec 23rd 2025)
User-defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog (Updated on Dec 12th 2025)
Batch Python User-defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Python user-defined table functions (UDTFs) in Unity Catalog (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
User-defined aggregate functions - Scala (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
What happened to Databricks Repos? (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Set up Databricks Git folders (Updated on Dec 5th 2025)
Enable or disable Databricks Git folders (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Set up private Git connectivity for Databricks Git folders (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
CI/CD with Databricks Git folders (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Databricks Git folder limits and reference (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Troubleshooting errors for Databricks Git folders (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
What asset types are supported by Git folders? (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
CI/CD on Databricks (Updated on Dec 5th 2025)
What are Databricks Asset Bundles? (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Manage Databricks apps using Databricks Asset Bundles (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Develop Databricks Asset Bundles (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Migrate existing resources to a bundle (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Sharing bundles and bundle files (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Bundle configuration in Python (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Migrate to the direct deployment engine (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Set up Databricks Asset Bundles to work in an air-gapped environment (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Databricks Asset Bundle configuration (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Configuration reference (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
Databricks Asset Bundles resources (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
Substitutions and variables in Databricks Asset Bundles (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Databricks Asset Bundle deployment modes (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Set permissions for resources in Databricks Asset Bundles (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
Use a private artifact in a bundle (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Add tasks to jobs in Databricks Asset Bundles (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
GitHub Actions (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
CI/CD with Jenkins on Databricks (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Local development tools (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Enable workload identity federation in CI/CD (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Authenticate with an identity provider token (Updated on Jan 2nd 2026)
Authorize user access to Databricks with OAuth (Updated on Dec 12th 2025)
Databricks CLI tutorial (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Basic usage for the Databricks CLI (Updated on Dec 12th 2025)
Databricks CLI commands (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
bundle command group (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
Databricks CLI migration (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Databricks Connect usage requirements (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Databricks Connect support in Databricks notebooks (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Tutorial: Develop a Databricks app locally with Databricks Connect (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Code examples for Databricks Connect for Python (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Databricks Utilities with Databricks Connect for Python (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Migrate to Databricks Connect for Python (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
User-defined functions in Databricks Connect for Python (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Asynchronous queries with Databricks Connect for Python (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
PySpark shell (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Code examples for Databricks Connect for Scala (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Databricks Utilities with Databricks Connect for Scala (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Asynchronous queries and interruptions with Databricks Connect for Scala (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Migrate to Databricks Connect for Scala (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Install the Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Databricks Asset Bundles extension features (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Run a file on a cluster or a file or notebook as a job in Databricks using the Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Command Palette commands for the Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Settings for the Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Databricks SSH tunnel (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Databricks SDK for Python (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
Databricks SDK for Java (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
SQL connectors, libraries, drivers, APIs, and tools (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Databricks ODBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Download and install the Databricks ODBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Compute settings for the Databricks ODBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Authentication settings for the Databricks ODBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Driver capability settings for the Databricks ODBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Create an ODBC DSN for the Databricks ODBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Create an ODBC DSN-less connection string for the Databricks ODBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Manage files in Unity Catalog volumes with the Databricks ODBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Test the Databricks ODBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Databricks JDBC Driver (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Supported connection properties (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Run queries using the JDBC driver (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
Java API reference for the Databricks JDBC Driver (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Download and reference the Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Configure a connection to Databricks using the Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Authentication settings for the Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Compute settings for the Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Driver capability settings for the Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
Legacy Databricks JDBC Driver (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Manage files in Unity Catalog volumes with the Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Testing the Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
Databricks Apps (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
Get started with Databricks Apps (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
View the details for a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Configure permissions for a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
Configure Databricks app execution with app.yaml (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Add resources to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add a Genie space resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add a Lakeflow Jobs resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add an MLflow experiment resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add a model serving endpoint resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add a secret resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add a SQL warehouse resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add a Unity Catalog connection resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add a user-defined function (UDF) resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add a Unity Catalog volume resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Add a vector search index resource to a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
Define environment variables in a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Manage dependencies for a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
Tutorial: Develop a Node.js Databricks app (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Tutorial: Develop a Databricks app with Streamlit (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Deploy a Databricks app (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
Configure Databricks sign-on from Tableau Server (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Enable or disable partner OAuth applications (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Override partner OAuth token lifetime policy (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Single-use refresh tokens (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
Manage connections in Partner Connect (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Power BI with Databricks (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
Configure service principals on Databricks for Power BI (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
Connect Power BI Desktop to Databricks (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
Publish to the Power BI service from Databricks (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) driver for Power BI (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
Power BI cheat sheet (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
Connect to Databricks from Microsoft Power Platform (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
Connect to Looker (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
Connect Tableau and Databricks (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)

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End of Year Documentation Update 🚀

Get started tutorials on Databricks (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)

Sign up for Databricks Free Edition (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)

Migrate Community Edition workspaces to Free Edition (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)

Get started tutorials on Databricks (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)

What is Databricks One? (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Introduction to workspace objects (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)

Manage workspace objects (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Partner-powered AI features (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)

What is Databricks Assistant? (Updated on Dec 22nd 2025)

Use Databricks Assistant (Updated on Dec 22nd 2025)

Customize and improve Databricks Assistant responses (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)

Extend the Assistant with agent skills (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)

Data guides (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)

Manage catalogs (Updated on Dec 13th 2025)

Limit catalog access to specific workspaces (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)

Manage schemas (Updated on Dec 113h 2025)

What are Unity Catalog volumes? (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)

Work with files in Unity Catalog volumes (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)

Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)

Connect to a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) external location (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Connect to an AWS S3 external location (read-only) (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)

Connect to a Cloudflare R2 external location (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)

Specify a managed storage location in Unity Catalog (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)

Manage storage credentials (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Manage external locations (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Create service credentials (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Manage service credentials (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Use Unity Catalog service credentials to connect to external cloud services (Updated on Dec 22nd 2025)

Connect to managed ingestion sources (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)

JDBC Unity Catalog connection (Updated on Dec 26th 2025)

Configure Microsoft Entra ID for SQL Server federation (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)

Lakehouse Federation performance recommendations (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)

Hive metastore federation: enable Unity Catalog to govern tables registered in a Hive metastore (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Enable Hive metastore federation for a legacy workspace Hive metastore (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Enable Hive metastore federation for an external Hive metastore (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Enable Snowflake catalog federation (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)

Notebook and SQL editor visualization types (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)

Query variant data (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)

Optimize stateful processing with watermarks (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Sinks in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)

Using sinks in pipelines (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Prepare your data for GDPR compliance (Updated on Dec 23rd 2025)

Configure Pipelines (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)

Optimize the cluster utilization of Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines with Autoscaling (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)

Develop pipeline code with Python (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)

Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines Python language reference (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)

Functions to define datasets (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

CREATE FLOW (pipelines) (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)

Use streaming tables in Databricks SQL (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)

Use materialized views in Databricks SQL (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)

Configure materialized views in Databricks SQL (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)

Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Create your first workflow with Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Setup a recurring query with backfill support using Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Use dbt transformations in Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Use a Python wheel file in Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Create and run Scala and Java JARs on serverless compute (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Orchestrate Lakeflow Jobs with Apache Airflow (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Configure and edit Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)

Trigger a single job run (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Run jobs on a schedule (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Trigger jobs when new files arrive (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Run jobs continuously (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Control the flow of tasks within Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Best practices for configuring classic Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Jobs with a large number of tasks (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Backfill jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Power BI task for jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

dbt platform task for jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Create a Databricks compatible JAR (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)

Spark Submit Task Deprecation Notice & Migration Guide (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)

Configure task dependencies (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Manage identities, permissions, and privileges for Lakeflow Jobs (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)

Add notifications on a job (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)

Parameterize jobs (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

Configure job parameters (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)

Configure task parameters (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)

What is a dynamic value reference? (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)