> You can use IDENTIFIER(:table) to safely pass the table name, but for the tags, placeholders like ? or :key doesn’t seem to work.

This does not seem correct in my testing. This fails on a cluster running DBR 16.1:

spark.sql("alter table IDENTIFIER(:table) SET TAGS ('foo')",
args={"table": <table_name>})

  File "/databricks/python/lib/python3.12/site-packages/grpc/_channel.py", line 966, in _next
    raise self
grpc._channel._MultiThreadedRendezvous: <_MultiThreadedRendezvous of RPC that terminated with:
	status = StatusCode.INTERNAL
	details = "
[PARSE_SYNTAX_ERROR] Syntax error at or near 'TAGS'. SQLSTATE: 42601 (line 1, pos 35)