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Assignment operator << for multiline sql statements not working

See original GitHub issue

If I understand the documentation correctly in order for me to store the query output to the variable “works” I can use “<<” as done below:

%%sql works << select top 10 itemid from tblitemdata

But this results in an error message (pyodbc.ProgrammingError) (‘42000’, “[42000] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server][SQL Server]Incorrect syntax near ‘<’. (102) (SQLExecDirectW)”) [SQL: u’works <<\nselect top 10 itemid\nfrom tblitemdata’]

Single line queries seem to get assigned fine i.e. works = %sql select top 10 itemid from tblitemdata

returns “Done”.

Thanks

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Created 7 years ago
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younglee23commented, Apr 26, 2017

Hi Databoy555,

I had the same issue and I think I solved it. The code for this feature is in v0.3.9 which released fairly recently. Unfortunately, updating the package from python or anaconda only updates you to v0.3.8. If you don’t want to wait for the release to your preferred package source, you may clone/install directly from the git repository.

Hope this helps!

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esegalcommented, Jul 17, 2017

I’ve installed v0.3.9 and I still get this error. Thanks!