Every tracked change

Standard tier workspaces on Azure Databricks reach end of life on Oct 1, 2026, and remaining ones are auto-upgraded to Premium.

Databricks announced it has acquired Row Zero, which will be integrated with Genie and made available to all Databricks customers across all major clouds.

Standard base price rises from $10 to $20 per month with 5 free credits monthly, effective September 21, 2026.

Single sign-on is no longer available on Standard; existing SSO users may continue while they keep the plan.

Plus is split into six credit tiers (40 to 2,000 credits) with per-tier prices and lower overage rates, available immediately.

Unused credits roll over for 3 months, previously 2 months.

Non-human users are blocked from password authentication, and existing LEGACY_SERVICE users are migrated to TYPE=SERVICE.

SQL Server 2016 reached end of support on July 14, 2026, so Microsoft no longer provides regular security updates or technical support; paid ESU is offered as a bridge.

Prefect announced it is acquiring Dagster Labs, including the Dagster product, codebase, customer relationships and team; the vendor says customer pricing and contracts are unchanged.

Tableau Cloud introduces capacity-based Viewer Blocks that replace per-user-per-month Viewer licensing, with no limit on Viewer accounts, starting July 2026.

Fivetran and dbt Labs completed their all-stock merger, originally announced October 13, 2025, now operating as Fivetran + dbt Labs.

The dbt Fusion engine runtime is being open sourced as dbt Core v2.0 under an Apache 2.0 license, currently in alpha.

After enforcement, new non-human users must be TYPE=SERVICE, and LEGACY_SERVICE is invalid in CREATE USER or ALTER USER.

From May 2026, new Tableau Cloud sites get a default of 10 concurrent extract refreshes instead of the previous 25 for qualifying sites.

Flow resource blocks are no longer auto-provisioned per site; purchased blocks are allocated at tenant level by cloud administrators from May 2026.

IBM ends standard support for Cognos Analytics 11.2.x on 30-Apr-2026, moving it to Extended/Sustained support that completes 30-Apr-2030.

DC2 node type feature development stops at release P191, and DC2 clusters retire on April 23, 2026 on the LTM track; customers should move to Serverless or RA3.

Airflow 2 moves to limited maintenance on Oct 22, 2025 and is EOL on Apr 22, 2026, after which it gets no fixes or support.

Looker Studio is renamed Data Studio, split into a free Data Studio edition and a paid Data Studio Pro edition for scaling teams.

Starting April 1, 2026, new Azure Databricks workspaces can only be created on the Premium tier.

PowerCenter 10.5.x general support ends March 31, 2026, after which customers must buy extended support at extra cost for one more year.

IBM completed its acquisition of Confluent, the Apache Kafka-based data streaming platform, at an enterprise value of about $11 billion.

Support has ended for Matillion ETL 1.75 LTS, with end-of-support date March 4th, 2026.

Azure Data Studio was retired on February 28, 2026 and no longer receives updates or security fixes; Microsoft directs users to Visual Studio Code with the MSSQL extension.

Activations is billed on inserted, updated and deleted data measured in MAR, with cost per MAR decreasing on each activation's consumption curve.

Snowflake announced a signed definitive agreement to acquire Observe, an AI-powered observability vendor, pending regulatory approval.

A $5 minimum base charge applies to standard connections generating between 1 and 1 million MAR per month, starting January 1, 2026 for PAYG.

Inserts, updates and deletes all count toward paid MAR; previously deletes did not contribute to paid MAR.

Repeated updates tracked in history mode now count toward paid MAR; soft delete and live modes are alternatives.

Snowpipe billing switches from per-second/per-core compute plus per-1,000-files fee to a fixed 0.0037 credits per GB ingested, applied automatically.

Salesforce announced it has completed its acquisition of Informatica, folding its data catalog, integration, governance, quality, and MDM products into the Salesforce platform.

BEx Analyzer and BEx Precalculation leave SAP mainstream maintenance and enter customer-specific maintenance from October 15, 2025, with new unknown bugs possibly chargeable.

QuickSight is renamed Amazon Quick Suite, with the new UI and branding rolling out globally from October 9, 2025 while existing BI functionality continues.

Author Pro list price drops from $50 to $40 per month, with Author Pro users gaining Quick Suite Enterprise capabilities.

Standard tier workspaces on Databricks on AWS were end-of-life'd, with customers required to upgrade to Premium or Enterprise by October 1, 2025.

Fivetran announced it has acquired Tobiko Data, the open source company behind SQLMesh and SQLGlot, adding transformation capabilities to its platform.

Fivetran announced a signed agreement to acquire Census, funded by cash and equity; terms were not disclosed and closing is pending.

Power BI Pro licenses increase to USD14 per user per month starting April 1, 2025, for new and existing commercial customers at renewal.

Microsoft raised Power BI Premium Per User from $20 to $24 per user per month for new customers and at renewal from April 1, 2025.

MAR volume tiering is applied per connection instead of per account from March 1, 2025, raising costs for accounts with many equal-sized connections.

SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025 no longer delivers several components, including Lumira Discovery, Crystal Reports for Enterprise and .unv universes; alternatives are recommended.