October 14-17, 2024 — 8.39 Release Notes¶

Cortex Analyst fully supported in Streamlit in Snowflake¶

With this release, Cortex Analyst is now fully supported in Streamlit in Snowflake. You no longer need to implement an authentication workaround to use Cortex Analyst in a Streamlit in Snowflake app.

For a step by step example, see Creating a Streamlit in Snowflake App.

Dynamic tables: Changes to the output of the GET_DDL function¶

With this release, the GET_DDL function will return target_lag instead of lag for dynamic tables to match the CREATE DYNAMIC TABLE statement.

Apache Iceberg™ tables: New SYSTEM$VERIFY_EXTERNAL_VOLUME function¶

With the new SYSTEM$VERIFY_EXTERNAL_VOLUME function, you can validate the configuration of an external volume for Apache Iceberg™ tables.

For more information, see SYSTEM$VERIFY_EXTERNAL_VOLUME.