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Tags Field Doesn't propagate in Delta Share

souravroy1990
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Hi,

My current work requires it to add tags in Databricks tables & views. I see that there is a tag column associated to tables and views to which we can set the TAG using SET TAG command.

My requirement is that once we are creating delta shares out of these tables and views the tags should be visible to the consumers. Currently Databricks doesn’t propagate this information in delta share and as I’m exploring this the reason for not propagating this is this is considered as metadata.

My question is, if we have a requirement of propagating the column level tags to the views associated to a delta share what is the mechanism in Databricks which would enable this?

Databricks community suggests using column comments field which propagates in share, but we are using the comment field for column description. Since this is a string field it would be difficult for the receiver to parse this field to exact 2 different information (column description and metadata), so we want to avoid using comment for metadata.

So is there any alternative to share tags in the delta share to the recipient of the share?

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