Querying multiple db's in same query with SQLExecutor2

[ckilduff]

Hi,

I am trying to use SQLExecutor2  in python to pull in a dataset from a query. The query uses multiple tables from different databases as the example below. Even though I am specifying the DB in the query I am still getting error 'invalid object name'. Is it possible to query multiple databases and output a dataframe?

Example Query:

from dataiku.core.sql import SQLExecutor2
executor = SQLExecutor2(connection='Database1')
Query = """select *
from Database1.dbo.Table1 a
left join Database2.dbo.Table2 b
on a.column1 = b.column2"""
executor.query_to_df(query= Query)

 

[AlexT]

Hi,

Since the database is actually defined at the connection level and SQLExecutor can only use a single connection this will not work. 

You could use multiple executors for example:

executor1 = SQLExecutor2(connection='Database1')
executor2 = SQLExecutor2(connection='Database2')
Query1 = "select * from table1"
Query2 = "select * from table2"
executor1.query_to_df(query =Query1)
executor2.query_to_df(query =Query2)

Then join the separate data frames using Pandas. As shown in this example.

It's also possible to use 2 SQL datasets from 2 different databases and use a Visual Join recipe instead.