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SQL Declare Variable equivalent in databricks

elgeo
Valued Contributor II

Hello. What would be the equivalent of the below in databricks?

DECLARE @LastChangeDate as date

SET @LastChangeDate = GetDate()

I already tried the below and worked. However I need to know how set a sql variable dynamically

SET da.dbname = test;

SELECT "${da.dbname}" AS db_name

Thank you in advance.

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DeepakMakwana74
New Contributor III

Hi @ELENI GEORGOUSI​ 

In databricks sql it will works in the following manner

SET LastChangeDate =current_date()

​Select ${hiveconf:LastChangeDate}

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elgeo
Valued Contributor II

Hello. Is the above something that can be done in databricks sql?

Soma
Valued Contributor

@ELENI GEORGOUSI​ 

set LastChangeDate =current_date();

or

in your sql query

select current_date() as date

elgeo
Valued Contributor II

Hello @somanath Sankaran​. Thank you for your reply. Neither of the above worked. Please find attached the related screenshots:

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Any other ideas please? Thank you in advance

Soma
Valued Contributor

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elgeo
Valued Contributor II

Hello @somanath Sankaran​. I need an equivalent to Declare variable. In the above example you attached, I cannot refer to this variable as for example ${dt} throughout the notebook.

elgeo
Valued Contributor II

A workaround is the below:

%python

result = spark.sql("""select date_format(current_date(),"yyyy-MM-dd") as dt""")

spark.conf.set('da.businessbr',result.collect()[0][0])

select '${da.businessbr}'

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DeepakMakwana74
New Contributor III

Hi @ELENI GEORGOUSI​ 

In databricks sql it will works in the following manner

SET LastChangeDate =current_date()

​Select ${hiveconf:LastChangeDate}

Hello - thanks for this suggestion.  However, I am getting this error in databricks: 

"Error running query: [_LEGACY_ERROR_TEMP_DBR_0222] org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Configuration LastChangeDate is not available."

I've tried many different suggestions for this and can't seem to find a way to do this simple thing.

 

srinitechworld
New Contributor II

hi try to to control the variables

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