September 2024

These features and Databricks platform improvements were released in September 2024.

Note

Releases are staged. Your Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.

Warehouse events system table is now available (Public Preview)

September 12, 2024

The system.compute.warehouse_events table records when SQL warehouses start, stop, scale up and down. You can use the table to monitor the SQL warehouses in your workspaces. See Warehouse events system table reference.

Extended AI-generated comments support

September 6, 2024

AI-generated comments support now includes catalogs, schemas, functions, models, and volumes in addition to tables and table columns. An inline assistant also helps edit comments in Catalog Explorer. See Add AI-generated comments to Unity Catalog objects.

Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code is GA

September 4, 2024

The Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. The extension allows you to connect to your remote Databricks workspaces from Visual Studio Code and then easily define, deploy, and run Databricks Asset Bundles, debug notebooks and run them as jobs, run files on clusters and as jobs, and synchronize local code to your workspace, all from the VSCode IDE.

To install the Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code and quickly get started, see What is the Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code?.

System tables are now generally available

September 3, 2024

The Databricks system tables platform is now generally available. This launch also includes the GA release of the system.billing.usage and system.billing.list_price tables. See Monitor usage with system tables.