Last from "everywhere" improvements in Spark 4.1 / Runtime 18 is IDENTIFIER(). Lack of support for IDENTIFIER() in many places is a major pain, especially when creating things like Materialized Views or Dashboard Queries. Of course, we need to wait a bit till Spark 4.1 is implemented in SQL Warehouse or in pipelines, but one of the most annoying problems for me is finally being fixed #databricks
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Databricks Breaking News: Week 2026 01: 29 December 2025 to 4 January 2026 *00:00* 2026 01: 29 December 2025 to 4 January 2026 *00:23* Bundle deployment from the plan. *02:14* Secrets in UC. *03:57* Everywhere implementations - Literal string coalescing, parameter markers, and identifiers. *07:56*
