Schema browser for hive_metastore not working

[oteng]

Hi,

I am not able to access the schemas inside the hive_metastore in the schema browser inside the SQL Editor in Databricks SQL. I tried on 2 databricks instances. One has Unity Catalog enabled and I am able to access the other catalogs/schemas but not the hive_metastore. The other instance doesn't have Unity Catalog enabled and I am still not able to access the schemas inside the hive_metastore. It just keeps spinning.

I am able to query the tables inside the hive_metastore and I am able to access the schema if I go to the data tab. It's just the schema browser inside the SQL Editor in Databricks SQL that doesn't work for hive_metastore.

Am I doing something wrong?

[Aviral-Bhardwaj · Accepted solution]

this is something weird, can we connect and solve your issue

[oteng]

Hi,

Thanks for responding.

Maybe I panicked too soon. I logged in this morning and it is working as expected in both Databricks workspace. Not sure if anything changed. I wasn't the only one experiencing this issue (at least 3 people in the company said they had the same issue in the same instance) which is why I thought it was some configuration issue. This lasted for at least 5-6 hours and restarting the computer and clearing the browser cache didn't do anything.

I'm not sure what happened but it's working for now.