schema.md

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Unity Catalog

databricks_schema Resource

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Within a metastore, Unity Catalog provides a 3-level namespace for organizing data: Catalogs, Databases (also called Schemas), and Tables / Views.

A databricks_schema is contained within databricks_catalog and can contain tables & views.

Example Usage

resource "databricks_catalog" "sandbox" {
  metastore_id = databricks_metastore.this.id
  name         = "sandbox"
  comment      = "this catalog is managed by terraform"
  properties = {
    purpose = "testing"
  }
}

resource "databricks_schema" "things" {
  catalog_name = databricks_catalog.sandbox.id
  name         = "things"
  comment      = "this database is managed by terraform"
  properties = {
    kind = "various"
  }
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are required:

• name - Name of Schema relative to parent catalog. Change forces creation of a new resource.
• catalog_name - Name of parent catalog
• owner - (Optional) Username/groupname of schema owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
• comment - (Optional) User-supplied free-form text.
• properties - (Optional) Extensible Schema properties.

Import

This resource can be imported by name:

$ terraform import databricks_schema.this <name>

Related Resources

The following resources are used in the same context:

• databricks_table data to list tables within Unity Catalog.
• databricks_schema data to list schemas within Unity Catalog.
• databricks_catalog data to list catalogs within Unity Catalog.