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How to change SQL editor / schema browser defalut catalog / database

alxsbn
Contributor

On SQL editor / schema browser Is there a way to change the default catalog / database ? My mine always fixed on my unity catalog. 

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karthik_p
Esteemed Contributor

@Alexis Blandin​ what catalog is showing as default to you, as UC itself is for governance you will be seeing only those catalog's that you have been assigned with. if you are admin you will see all catalog's in schema browser in data under SQL. can you please share screen shot what changes you want to make

Sure, this is what i have now.

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Debayan
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Hi, From the dropdown you can get the data objects.

https://docs.databricks.com/sql/user/queries/queries.html#browse-data-objects-in-sql-editor

Please let us know if this helps. Also, please tag @Debayan​ with your next comment so that I will get notified. Thank you!

Hi,

Of course I can select objects with the dropdowns.

But to give you an idea of the experience. My users say me it's pretty annoying that every time they go to the SQL editor they need to change the catalog to our gold one, then our core database (which is our data warehouse database).

RichieHodge
New Contributor II

Any update on this? It's cumbersome to have to manually select my "favorite" catalog/schema EVERY TIME I open a new query in SQL Editor. We should be able to set our "favorite" as the default. Excellent example of missing productivity feature.

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