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databricks Platform · Updated Jun 1, 2026

Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer

Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer UI.

What it does

Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer UI. To find the most popular columns in a table, go to the table's Overview tab. Popularity is determined by the number of queries against the table that read from a given column.

Why it matters

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 now available as a Databricks hosted model Run a subset of job tasks with their dependencies Lakehouse Real Time (Beta) Lakebase Autoscaling now available in AWS Tokyo region (ap northeast 1) SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (06/29) Govern LLMs in Unity Catalog with model services (Beta) Custom Docker images for AI Runtime CLI workloads (Beta) Parquet v2 for Delta Lake tables is generally available Genie Code Chat/Agent mode selector removed Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector (GA) Metric view parameters are now in Public Preview Solution Accelerators in Databricks Marketplace are now published as apps or notebooks Databricks connector for Power Platform is generally available Change the owner of standalone pipeline streaming tables and materialized views Standalone pipeline materialized views support expectations Data Classification is now available by default for some workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled Block specific internet destinations in network policies (Public Preview) Square managed ingestion connector (Beta) Managed agent memory is in Beta Wiz Audit Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta) Genie Code system table now counts only user submitted interactions The Discover page is now in Public Preview Enable access requests across your Unity Catalog metastore (Public Preview) Legacy compute preview system schema deprecated Netskope Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta) Salesforce Marketing Cloud managed ingestion connector (Beta) Incremental ingestion for Workday Reports (Beta) Lakebase now supports Postgres 18 Token auto scoping for personal access tokens is now generally available Share Genie Spaces externally using OpenSharing (Beta) Omnigent coding agent meta harness is now in Beta Comments on foreign tables (Beta) Lakeflow Designer is now generally available Connect Genie to Microsoft Copilot Cowork (Beta) Install third party apps from Databricks Marketplace Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are in Beta Databricks to Databricks Delta Sharing across regulatory domains is now available (Public Preview) Use OAuth to authenticate Databricks connections in Power Platform Use Universal Commits to purchase Marketplace partner products ai query is now generally available Share data behind a firewall with SecureConnect (Public Preview) OIDC is now supported for sharing to Iceberg clients Configure the recovery period for dropped managed tables (Public Preview) AUTO CDC flows for streaming tables in Databricks SQL are generally available Faster inference tables for custom model serving endpoints Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens (Beta) Managed disaster recovery is now in Public Preview Mission Critical add on is now in Public Preview AI Runtime CLI (Beta) Auto time to live for automatic row deletion is generally available Converting a partitioned table to liquid clustering is generally available Improved workspace files read performance Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints is generally available Genie Code now uses models served through OpenAI on Databricks ABAC GRANT policies for models (Beta) ai extract is now generally available ai classify is now generally available Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools Schedule deferred policy enforcement for all purpose compute Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams (Beta) Lakehouse Replay (Beta) Delta Sharing is now OpenSharing Zip connector (Beta) Automatic identity management for Okta (Public Preview) Anthropic Claude Fable 5 now available as a Databricks hosted model Identity federation enabled by default for all new workspaces Databricks Genie app for Slack (Public Preview) The update\ flow API for Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines is generally available Reorganized Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines documentation Monday.com managed ingestion connector (Beta) Zoho Books managed ingestion connector (Beta) Inbound Private Link for performance intensive services is now generally available External lineage is now generally available Aha!

Architecture
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In short

Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer UI. To find the most popular columns in a table, go to the table's Overview tab.

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Key takeaway
Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer UI.
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