diff --git a/kedro-datasets/kedro_datasets/databricks/managed_table_dataset.py b/kedro-datasets/kedro_datasets/databricks/managed_table_dataset.py
index 0ba659f0a..ae193e68a 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/kedro_datasets/databricks/managed_table_dataset.py
+++ b/kedro-datasets/kedro_datasets/databricks/managed_table_dataset.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 from kedro_datasets.spark.spark_dataset import _get_spark
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+pd.DataFrame.iteritems = pd.DataFrame.items
 
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
index 671d541ae..633af72ec 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
+++ b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
@@ -217,8 +217,7 @@ test = [
     "opencv-python~=4.5.5.64",
     "openpyxl>=3.0.3, <4.0",
     "pandas-gbq>=0.12.0",
-    "pandas>=2.0; python_version < '3.11'",
-    "pandas>=2.0; python_version >= '3.11'",
+    "pandas>=2.0",
     "Pillow~=9.0",
     "plotly>=4.8.0, <6.0",
     "polars[xlsx2csv, deltalake]~=0.18.0",