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VARIANT reached general availability in Databricks
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VARIANT reached general availability in Databricks in July 2026. It is a column type for semi-structured, JSON-shaped data without a declared schema, created with parse_json() and queried by path.
Learners handling nested JSON data need to know VARIANT is now a generally available Databricks type.
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