databricks: Helper for Connecting to Databricks via ODBC

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Helper for Connecting to Databricks via ODBC

Description

Connect to Databricks clusters and SQL warehouses via the Databricks ODBC driver.

In particular, the custom dbConnect() method for the Databricks ODBC driver implements a variant of Databricks's unified authentication model when no uid or pwd is supplied, checking for ambient credentials in the following order:

• Viewer-based or service principal credentials supplied by Posit Connect (requires the connectcreds package).

• Personal access tokens.

• Workload identity federation.

• OAuth machine-to-machine credentials.

• OAuth user-to-machine credentials suplied via Posit Workbench or the Databricks CLI on desktop.

This aims to provide broad compatibility between odbc and the standard environment variables used by Databricks SDKs in R and other languages.

In addition, on macOS platforms, the dbConnect() method will check for irregularities with how the driver is configured, and attempt to fix in-situ, unless the odbc.no_config_override environment variable is set.

Usage

databricks()

## S4 method for signature 'DatabricksOdbcDriver'
dbConnect(
  drv,
  httpPath,
  workspace = Sys.getenv("DATABRICKS_HOST"),
  useNativeQuery = TRUE,
  driver = NULL,
  HTTPPath,
  uid = NULL,
  pwd = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

drv	an object that inherits from DBI::DBIDriver, or an existing DBI::DBIConnection object (in order to clone an existing connection).
httpPath, HTTPPath	To query a cluster, use the HTTP Path value found under ⁠Advanced Options > JDBC/ODBC⁠ in the Databricks UI. For SQL warehouses, this is found under ⁠Connection Details⁠ instead.
workspace	The URL of a Databricks workspace, e.g. "https://example.cloud.databricks.com".
useNativeQuery	Suppress the driver's conversion from ANSI SQL 92 to HiveSQL? The default (TRUE), gives greater performance but means that paramterised queries (and hence dbWriteTable()) do not work.
driver	The name of the Databricks ODBC driver, or NULL to use the default name.
uid, pwd	Manually specify a username and password for authentication. Specifying these options will disable automated credential discovery.
...	Further arguments passed on to dbConnect().

Value

An OdbcConnection object with an active connection to a Databricks cluster or SQL warehouse.

Examples

## Not run: 
DBI::dbConnect(
  odbc::databricks(),
  httpPath = "sql/protocolv1/o/4425955464597947/1026-023828-vn51jugj"
)

# Use credentials from the viewer or a service principal (when possible) in
# a Shiny app deployed to Posit Connect.
library(connectcreds)
server <- function(input, output, session) {
  conn <- DBI::dbConnect(
    odbc::databricks(),
    workspace = "https://example.cloud.databricks.com",
    httpPath = "sql/protocolv1/o/4425955464597947/1026-023828-vn51jugj"
  )
}

## End(Not run)

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