19 is already here, but 18 is now LTS. In a new naming convention, LTS doesn’t have a minor version. New features, behavior changes, and fixes are now added incrementally to the same major Runtime version till it becomes LTS. In fact, that approach s...
Not yet an automatic update, but at least we can check whether our CLI version is up to date. #databricks My blog post with news: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-dabs-indexes-ltap-genie-last-update-25-july-ffac8533774f
Genie Spaces (now renamed to Genie Agents) are available now in DABs as … Genie Spaces. First, you need to run bundle generate to export your existing development Genie into a bundle. #databricks My blog post with news: https://databrickster.medium.c...
We can use Genie now, even in the CLI, with a simple ask command. #databricks My blog post with news: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-dabs-indexes-ltap-genie-last-update-25-july-ffac8533774f
If we set the REPLICA option in Postgres, we can then set CDF sync to Unity Catalog in the branch overview. #databricks more news and video https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-ttl-8416bdccf627
I hope soon it will be in DABS also LTAP is coming and is going to repalce that
In the Lakebase project, we can enable Lakebase Search. Lakebase Search is Databricks’ managed search capability for Lakebase projects. Under the hood, it exposes two Postgres extensions: lakebase_vector, which adds approximate nearest-neighbor vecto...
Lakehouse indexes allow not only to skip files during read but also, thanks to row-level tracking id to go directly to the given row and skip scanning other rows in the file. #databricks https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-full-text-search-index...
Full-text search index on Databricks. I managed to search 400 times faster! Read more about CREATE SEARCH INDEX #databricks https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-full-text-search-index-benchmark https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/full-text-sea...
When you create a new project in Lakebase, you can choose Postgres 18 (Although 17 is still the default, as 18 has some limitations). #databricks more news and video https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-...
A dozen nice new IP functions have been added to Databricks SQL. #databricks more news https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-ttl-8416bdccf627
Personal network drive is now in Unity Catalog. #databricks more news https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-ttl-8416bdccf62
In the CREATE or ALTER statement, we can specify that rows will be automatically deleted after a number of days based on the date difference between the current date and the value from the given field more news https://medium.com/@databrickster/datab...
The new data type TIME in Spark SQL represents a time value with fields hour, minute, second, and up to microseconds. All operations over the type are performed without taking any time zone into account. more news https://medium.com/@databrickster/da...
The system users group will no longer give default entitlements. It is the first step needed to develop more sophisticated entitlement rules in databricks.https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-ttl-8416bdccf627
Not only is code CI/CD possible, but runtime CI/CD is now possible thanks to #databricks docker. more about it: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-docker-from-runtime-ci-cd-to-compliance-1479cf6cdf8d https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-...
Why would we want to use docker?Wouldn't that just add unnecessary complexity?
