diff --git a/.github/workflows/downstreams.yml b/.github/workflows/downstreams.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 87bf06f41..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/downstreams.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-name: downstreams
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize]
-  merge_group:
-    types: [checks_requested]
-  push:
-    # Always run on push to main. The build cache can only be reused
-    # if it was saved by a run from the repository's default branch.
-    # The run result will be identical to that from the merge queue
-    # because the commit is identical, yet we need to perform it to
-    # seed the build cache.
-    branches:
-      - main
-
-permissions:
-  id-token: write
-  contents: read
-  pull-requests: write
-
-jobs:
-  compatibility:
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        downstream:
-          #- name: ucx
-          - name: remorph
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Install Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          cache: 'pip'
-          cache-dependency-path: '**/pyproject.toml'
-          python-version: '3.12'
-
-      - name: Install toolchain
-        run: |
-          pip install hatch==1.15.0
-
-      - name: Check downstream compatibility
-        uses: databrickslabs/sandbox/downstreams@downstreams/v0.0.1
-        with:
-          repo: ${{ matrix.downstream.name }}
-          org: databrickslabs
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/src/databricks/labs/dqx/utils.py b/src/databricks/labs/dqx/utils.py
index e435cf85a..39d8bb2d0 100644
--- a/src/databricks/labs/dqx/utils.py
+++ b/src/databricks/labs/dqx/utils.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 
 COLUMN_NORMALIZE_EXPRESSION = re.compile("[^a-zA-Z0-9]+")
-COLUMN_PATTERN = re.compile(r"Column<'(.*?)(?: AS (\w+))?'>$")
+COLUMN_PATTERN = re.compile(r"Column<'(.*?)(?: AS (\w+))?'>$", re.DOTALL)
 INVALID_COLUMN_NAME_PATTERN = re.compile(r"[\s,;{}\(\)\n\t=]+")
 
 
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_apply_checks.py b/tests/integration/test_apply_checks.py
index 054615bab..4a2c5f968 100755
--- a/tests/integration/test_apply_checks.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_apply_checks.py
@@ -4542,6 +4542,18 @@ def test_apply_checks_with_sql_expression(ws, spark):
             "criticality": "error",
             "check": {"function": "sql_expression", "arguments": {"expression": "col1 not like \"val%\""}},
         },
+        {
+            "criticality": "error",
+            "check": {
+                "function": "sql_expression",
+                "arguments": {
+                    # expression with new line
+                    "expression": """col2 
+not 
+  like \"val%\""""
+                },
+            },
+        },
         {
             "criticality": "error",
             "check": {
@@ -4580,6 +4592,16 @@ def test_apply_checks_with_sql_expression(ws, spark):
                         "run_id": RUN_ID,
                         "user_metadata": {},
                     },
+                    {
+                        "name": "not_col2_not_like_val",
+                        "message": "Value is not matching expression: col2 \nnot \n  like \"val%\"",
+                        "columns": None,
+                        "filter": None,
+                        "function": "sql_expression",
+                        "run_time": RUN_TIME,
+                        "run_id": RUN_ID,
+                        "user_metadata": {},
+                    },
                     {
                         "name": "not_col2_not_like_val",
                         "message": "Value is not matching expression: col2 not like 'val%'",