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- Dashboard visualization and data improvements
Widgets render pivot tables at full width, and download limits increase to 10,000x1000 rows and columns.
- Dashboard subscriptions, custom calculations, and visualization improvements
Subscriptions can be sent to account-level users. Custom calculations can reference other custom calculations.
- Level of detail expressions for custom calculations
Control aggregation granularity independently of visualization dimensions. Used for calculating percentages or comparing values to dataset-wide aggregates.
- Dashboard navigation, pivot tables, and text widget improvements
Thicker scroll bar, larger title character limit, configurable pivot table header height, and markdown table support in text widgets.
- Dashboard pivot tables, filters, and data export improvements
Pivot tables display total rows at top, Excel downloads in pivoted format.
- Dashboard enhancements and fixes
Boolean values support custom string aliases, and filter widgets have several fixes and new features.
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- Dashboard visualization enhancements and fixes
Sorts charts by hidden measure fields, adds spacing to range filters, and fixes Safari cross-filtering.
- Dashboard visualization enhancements and fixes
Adds individual series labels and fixes download format options to include CSV, TSV, and Excel.
- Dashboard visualization enhancements
Pivot table headers render faster with reduced scroll lag.
- Dashboard visualization improvements and bug fixes
Counters now track metrics over time with sparklines. Filters apply instantly by default.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is rolling out in Current
Includes new features, see documentation for details.
- Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview
Offers a new editing experience, replacing the previous version.
- Convert foreign tables to Unity Catalog managed or external tables (Public Preview)
Requires Databricks Runtime 17.0 LTS or above. Uses ALTER TABLE SET MANAGED or SET EXTERNAL.
- Dashboard search and embedding enhancements
Search now covers widget titles and descriptions, and dataset queries are searchable from the workspace bar.
- Dashboard filter and counter enhancements
Supports date and number filters, and consumes Unity Catalog metadata.
- List MCP servers in Azure Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview)
Allows distribution of AI tools and connection to external data sources, requires provider listing.
- List MCP servers in Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview)
Lets users install MCP servers to connect AI agents to external data sources.
- SQL Editor visualization fix
Tooltips now display in front of the legend.
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- Dashboard visualization, pivot table, and authoring improvements
Adds Slack channel subscriptions, Top N scroll bar on mouseover, and export to materialized view.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is now available in Preview
Adds EXECUTE IMMEDIATE constant expressions and LIMIT ALL for recursive CTEs.
- Dashboard publishing, scheduling, and field management improvements
Notify viewers is off by default. Custom calculations support over 170 functions.
- New alert editing experience
Replaces old editor with a multi-tab editor for unified workflow.
- Dashboard pivot tables, gridlines, and drill-through enhancements
Supports contains, startswith, endswith functions in pivot tables. Gridlines can be toggled on and off in charts.
- AI/BI dashboard table and text widget improvements
Control line thickness in line charts, copy link URLs from tables, and use DISTINCT and FILTER in aggregate functions.
- Visualizations fix
Fixes legend selection for charts with aliased series names in SQL editor and notebooks.
- AI/BI dashboard enhancements and global filters improvements
Fixes global filters panel overflow, adds copy and paste for widgets and pages.
- Semantic metadata in metric views
Requires YAML 1.1 and Databricks Runtime 17.3 or higher.
- AI/BI dashboard global filters panel improvements
Opens by default on first visit, preserves last setting thereafter.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.30 is now available in Preview
Adds LIKE operator support for UTF8 collations and ST_ExteriorRing function.
- AI/BI dashboard Genie integration and publish dialog improvements
Genie uses publisher's credentials for embedded dashboards, otherwise uses viewer's. Publish dialog is redesigned.
- AI/BI dashboard text widget and performance improvements
Enhanced UI for text formatting and image insertion. Resolves performance slowdowns and page loading issues.
- AI/BI dashboard active filter bar and visualization improvements
Shows all active filters on a dashboard, including global and page-level filters. Supports min and max aggregations for date fields.
- Dashboard external embedding Public Preview and new custom calculations functions
Adds ln, log, log10, and round functions, increases custom calculations limit to 200 per dataset.
- Default warehouse setting is now available in Beta
Applied across SQL editor, AI/BI dashboards, and other tools, with optional user override.
- Dashboard sorting and formatting improvements
Sorting now works on temporal categorical axes. Numeric values can be formatted as Bytes.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.25 is rolling out in Current
Rolls out from August 20th to August 28th, 2025.
- Dashboard table visualization and chart improvements
Adds indicator for hidden calculated measures, fixes transparent headers and pivot table column widths.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.25 is now available in Preview
Adds recursive common table expressions and spatial SQL expressions.
- Fixed timeout handling for materialized views and streaming tables
New views and tables apply warehouse timeout, existing ones require CREATE OR REFRESH. Default timeout is 2 days.
- New SQL editor is generally available
Provides a unified authoring environment with features like real-time collaboration and enhanced Databricks Assistant integration.
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