ALTER CATALOG

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Transfers the ownership of a catalog to a new principal.

Since: Databricks Runtime 10.3

Syntax 

ALTER CATALOG [ catalog_name ] OWNER TO principal

Parameters

  • catalog_name

    The name of the catalog to be altered. If you provide no name the default is hive_metastore.

  • OWNER TO principal

    Transfers ownership of the catalog to principal.

Examples 

-- Creates a catalog named `some_cat`.
> CREATE CATALOG some_cat;

-- Transfer ownership of the catalog to another user
> ALTER CATALOG some_cat OWNER TO `alf@melmak.et`;