azure databricks sql

Question

How to run multi-line sql statements in databricks notebook cell? for me I have to generate scripts of 200 tables but the databricks notebook executes and throws out the result only for the last line in the cell.

SHOW CREATE TABLE customer_table
SHOW CREATE TABLE customer_table_1
SHOW CREATE TABLE customer_table_2
.....
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Answer 1

Hi @Vinodh247 ,

Thankyou for using Microsoft Q&A platform and thanks for posting your question.

As per my understanding, you are trying to run multiple sql queries in a single cell in a databricks notebook. However, it's giving the output of only the last statement in the result section. Please let me know if my understanding is incorrect.

This is by design . You should consider using one show command in each cell. However, as I see your requirement is to get the create table statement for multiple tables at once. You can consider writing your sql queries in pyspark using spark.sql function and load the query output in a dataframe and display the dataframe.

Below is the example:

df = spark.sql("show create table customer_table")  
display(df)  
df1 = spark.sql("show create table customer_table_1")  
display(df1)  
df2 = spark.sql("show create table customer_table_2")  
display(df2)  

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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