Facing issue while using widget values in sql script

[Ashwathy]

I am using below code to create and read widgets. I am assigning default value.

dbutils.widgets.text("pname", "default","parameter_name")

pname=dbutils.widgets.get("pname")

I am using this widget parameter in some sql scripts. one example is given below

%sql

CREATE database if not exists ${pname}_test;

I am executing this notebook from an ADF. I am not passing any value to this parameter, so it will take default value.

Problem I am facing is, sometimes this widget value is reflecting and sometimes it is not reflecting in the sql script so it is creating "_test" database. This is happening in my dev environment. I am using exactly same code in my production environment, and there it is working fine.

Sometimes it is working all fine and sometimes I am facing this issue. Can anyone please help me to identify the issue?

[Ashwathy]

Hi @Kaniz Fatma​ , I tried executing notebook using runtime 9.1 LTS and 10.4 LTS.

The problem is, I am using this sql scripts in python notebook. I can able to read widget values and able to print the widget values using python print statement. I am getting value as expected.

When I use same variable in a SQL script in the same notebook, this value is not reflecting there instead it is taking empty value.

I changed all my sql scripts to spark.sql() statements and now notebooks are running fine. But still I am not getting, why sql scripts are not working here.

[takomyr]

https://docs.databricks.com/notebooks/widgets.html states

In general, you cannot use widgets to pass arguments between different languages within a notebook. You can create a widget arg1 in a Python cell and use it in a SQL or Scala cell if you run one cell at a time. However, this does not work if you use Run All or run the notebook as a job.