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
https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1-29-december-2025-to-4-january-2025-432c6231d...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLjoTkceKQI

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