Partner Connect supports connecting to erwin Data Modeler by Quest
October 25-28, 2022
You can now easily create a connection between erwin Data Modeler by Quest and your Azure Databricks workspace using Partner Connect. For more information, see Connect to erwin Data Modeler using Partner Connect.
Databricks Feature Store support for Azure Cosmos DB (Public Preview)
October 25, 2022
Databricks Feature Store now supports publishing feature tables to Azure Cosmos DB. For details, see Third-party online stores.
Enforce user isolation cluster types on a workspace
You can now format Python cells in a notebook, making it easier to read and maintain code and enforce coding standards across notebooks. For details, see Format code cells.
Service principals provide API-only access to the Azure Databricks account
October 14, 2022
You can now use Microsoft Entra ID service principals to automate account-level workflows such as Unity Catalog metastore creation and identity management. Service principals can authenticate to account-level APIs using tokens. A service principal must be an account admin to access account-level APIs. For details, see Get Microsoft Entra ID tokens for service principals.
Personal Compute cluster policy is available by default to all users
October 11, 2022
The Personal Compute policy is available on all workspaces by default. The policy allows users to easily create single-machine compute resources for their individual use so they can start running workloads immediately, minimizing compute management overhead.
Add data UI provides a central UI for loading data to Azure Databricks
October 11, 2022
The add data UI provides access to common data sources configurations and file upload UIs for all Azure Databricks personas. See Upload files to Azure Databricks.
Create or modify table from file upload page unifies experience for small file upload to Delta Lake
You can now easily create a connection between Hevo Data and your Azure Databricks workspace using Partner Connect. For more information, see Connect to Hevo Data using Partner Connect.
Enable admin protection for No Isolation Shared clusters
October 7, 2022
Account admins can prevent internal credentials from being automatically generated for Azure Databricks workspace admins on No Isolation Shared clusters.
SQL persona integrated with new search experience
October 6, 2022
Global search is now available in the SQL persona. You can now search for queries, dashboards, and alerts with global search in any persona by name using the new search experience. You can also search for content within a query and see a preview of matching content.
Privilege inheritance in now supported in Unity Catalog
October 3-6, 2022
Unity Catalog now supports privilege inheritance. This means that granting a privilege on a catalog or schema automatically grants the privilege to all current and future objects within the catalog or schema. For more information about the Unity Catalog privilege model see Unity Catalog privileges and securable objects.
If you created your Unity Catalog metastore during the public preview (before August 25, 2022), you can upgrade to Privilege Model version 1.0. to take advantage of privilege inheritance. Privileges have been renamed in Privilege Model version 1.0, however Databricks will continue to support grants expressed using the old privilege model and automatically map them to the equivalent grant. Databricks recommends that you upgrade existing code that performs grants to reference the updated privilege model.
Top navigation bar in the UI
October 3-6, 2022
The following items have moved from the side bar to the top bar in the UI:
User Settings
Admin Console
Manage Account
Help
Workspace switcher
Search
Databricks Runtime 11.3 (Beta)
October 3, 2022
Databricks Runtime 11.3 is now available as a Beta release.
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