SQL CTE in Databricks or something similar?

[gbradley145]

%sql

WITH genCTE AS (

SELECT MAX(PredID) + 1 AS PredID, 145 AS SystemID

FROM TableA

UNION ALL

SELECT PredID + 1

FROM genCTE

)

SELECT * FROM genCTE

When I attempt this, I get an error that genCTE does not exists.

There may be a better way to what I am trying to do. Currently in the version of databricks we are running, we cant use an identity column. We are migrating a table and job from SQL Server to databricks. I can do a full load and pull over the identity column. But, I need to continue to populate this identity column going forward.

I also have a tried a SQL UDF where I can easily grab the MAX(ID) and have tried a row_number function over the top of it, but I cant get it work.

Hopefully I have done an adequate job of describing this issue. I simply need continue the IDs and need to do it programmaticly in databricks. I am hoping I can do this via SQL as well as I am not at all familiar with Python, although I would be open to a Python solution, I would just need a little more hand holding with it.

Thank you!

[byrdman]

not seeing anything wrong , but know that your close to making this work.. I do use CTE's in Databricks SQL. make sure your query works as expected outside the CTE. another work around is make the cte portion into a dataframe then create a view from the dataframe, and use it for joins in your sql statement.

[PriyaAnanthram]

Recursive CTEs I havent yet used I got the below eg working with pyspark code How to implement Recursive Queries in Spark | by Akash Chaurasia | Globant | Medium

[Kaniz]

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[Hubert-Dudek]

You are referencing CTE inside of CTE. That's why it is not working. It would be best if you refactored your query.

[Kaniz]

Hi @Greg Bradley​ ​, We haven’t heard from you since the last response from @Hubert Dudek​ , and I was checking back to see if you have a resolution yet.

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[Anonymous]

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