Creating hive tables in S3 bucket using databricks

Question

I want to set a global location for all the tables I create beforehand Ex:

Create table table name stored as parquet location 's3_bucket/db_name.db'

I am doing this in each table that I create,

I am looking for a setting like

use database 's3_database_address'

So that I can eliminate the repeatative cmds

Answer 1

Every managed table in Hive will by default be created in warehouse directory. You don't need to give location unless you want them to point to somewhere else than the default warehouse location. Read this: http://www.devgrok.com/2018/12/using-s3-hive-metastore-with-emr.html?m=1

Answer 2

Creating a database supports location argument. If you then USE DATABASE {} , new tables will be created under the custom location of the database, not the default one.