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Databricks SQL Serverless Cost Governance: Budgets, Alerts, and Query-Level Attribution
Data Engineering

Databricks SQL Serverless Cost Governance: Budgets, Alerts, and Query-Level Attribution

Databricks adds budgets, billing system tables and usage dashboards to make SQL Serverless spend easier to explain. But budgets are not spending caps, estimates are not invoices, and useful attribution depends on consistent tagging and operational controls.

Oct 10, 2026 · 13 min read
Databricks Runtime Introduces NEAREST BY: Native SQL Vector Search at Scale
Data Engineering

Databricks Runtime Introduces NEAREST BY: Native SQL Vector Search at Scale

Databricks brings batch vector search into SQL with NEAREST BY, a fused Photon GEMM operator and IVF indexes stored in liquid-clustered Delta tables, reducing the need for separate vector-serving infrastructure in large-scale analytical workloads.

Oct 09, 2026 · 12 min read