# Officially announcing the new Observable

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/officially-announcing-the-new-observable/10782>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [September 1, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/officially-announcing-the-new-observable/10782 "2026-09-01T19:57:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbostock](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbostock/32/9_2.png) [@mbostock](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbostock)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/officially-announcing-the-new-observable/10782/19 "2026-09-02T16:53:44Z")

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> [@jwb](#):
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> Data table cells provided a quick and easy way to attach a new file, flip between different files, judge data quality at a glance, and do common column transformations without a code cell.

We hear you. Hopefully the forthcoming improvements to SQL cells will serve this purpose. If we make it easy enough to create a SQL cell from a file (something like `SELECT * FROM file`), then you’ll get the same visual summaries and filters as the past data table cell. But unlike the data table cell, the query can be much more expressive if and when you want it to be.

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