Databricks Breaking News: Week 50: 8 December 2025 to 14 December 2025 #databricks news
Summary
Databricks now supports native reading and writing of Excel files in PySpark, SQL, and Autoloader, including features like sheet listing and range targeting. Additionally, Databricks Runtime 18 is available in beta, introducing improvements for streaming queries and new system columns for job tables, alongside a new Legase experience with project and branching capabilities for transactional databases.
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