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I would like to add comments to all of our columns, programmatically. The only way I can find to do this is through SQL DDL - e.g. `alter table sometable alter column somecolumn comment 'some comment string`. However, I want to read this comment stri...

We run a shared cluster that is used for general purpose adhoc analytics, which I assume is a relatively common use case to try to keep costs down. However, the technical experience of users of this cluster varies a lot, so we run into situations whe...

We use Terraform to manage most of our infrastructure, and I would like to extend this to Unity Catalog. However, we are extensive users of tagging to categorize our datasets, and the only programmatic method I can find for adding tags is to use SQL ...

According to the docs, we should be able to use SYNC TABLE to 'upgrade' a table from a Hive metastore to Unity Catalog. We are using AWS Glue as our Hive Metastore, but tables created in Glue do not seem to be set up in a format that Databricks likes...