Databricks: What’s new in July 2025? Updates & Features Explained! #databricks
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Databricks, *What’s New in Databricks?* Explore Databricks' *July 2025* platform update, packed with game‑changing capabilities such as *Databricks Free* workspaces for experimentation, *Lakebase* - native PostgreSQL on the lakehouse, and the long‑awaited *Databricks One* licence model that unifies billing and entitlements. You’ll also see production‑ready AI helpers like *AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT()* for automatic PDF/Office invoice extraction, end‑to‑end *Lakeflow* declarative pipelines, and *AUTO CDC* that makes change‑data‑capture almost effortless. Rounding out the release are managed *Iceberg* tables, *Serverless GPU* with A10s, external lineage, file‑arrival triggers, Runtime 17, tag policies, and much more. Level‑up your data engineering, analytics, and Gen‑AI workloads with the freshest features from Databricks! ============================= 📌 *Key Highlights for This Month:* - *00:00* Databricks *July 2025* Update - *00:18* Databricks *Free* workspaces - *01:36* *Lakebase* – PostgreSQL in the lakehouse - *11:13* *Databricks One* & customer entitlement - *13:45* *AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT()* & information extraction - *17:06* *SharePoint* connector & knowledge base - *18:39* *Iceberg…
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