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 ...

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

From the article 5 mentionsAnnounced by Databricks, this update allows SQL analysts and data engineers to define common ETL patterns using familiar SQL queries, rather than complex procedural code.

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: ...

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 ...

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

Two paths to connect Kiro IDE to Databricks: the four Databricks-managed MCP servers (Genie, SQL, Unity Catalog Functions, AI Search) for a 10-minute PAT-based setup, or the new Databricks AI Dev Kit ...

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