Dbt-databricks

Fixes

- Fixed the behavior of the incremental schema change ignore option to properly handle the scenario when columns are dropped (thanks case-k-git!) ([580](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/580))
- Fixed export of saved queries (thanks peterallenwebb!) ([588](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/588))
- Properly match against null for merging matching rows ([590](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/590))

Fixes

- Rollback databricks-sql-connector to 2.9.3 to actually fix connection timeout issue ([578](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/578))

Skipped due to incorrect files in deployed package

Fixes

- Pin databricks sdk to 0.17.0 to fix connection timeout issue ([571](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/571))

Fixes

- Added python model specific connection handling to prevent using invalid sessions ([547](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/547))
- Allow schema to be specified in testing (thanks case-k-git!) ([538](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/538))
- Fix dbt incremental_strategy behavior by fixing schema table existing check (thanks case-k-git!) ([530](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/530))
- Fixed bug that was causing streaming tables to be dropped and recreated instead of refreshed. ([552](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/552))
- Fixed Hive performance regression by streamlining materialization type acquisition ([557](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/557))
- Fix: Python models authentication could be overridden by a `.netrc` file in the user's home directory ([338](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/338))
- Fix: MV/ST REST api authentication could be overriden by a `.netrc` file in the user's home directory ([555](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/555))
- Show details in connection errors ([562](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/562))
- Updated connection debugging logging and setting connection last used time on session open.([565](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/565))

Under the Hood

- Adding retries around API calls in python model submission ([549](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/549))
- Upgrade to databricks-sql-connector 3.0.0 ([554](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/554))
- Pinning pandas to < 2.2.0 to keep from breaking multiple tests ([564](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/554))

Fixes

- Fix for issue where we were invoking create schema or not exists when the schema already exists (leading to permission issue) ([529](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/529))
- Fix for issue where we never reused connections ([517](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/517))

Under the Hood

- Refactor macro tests to be more usable ([524](https://github.com/databricks/dbt-databricks/pull/524))