You are creating a new notebook in Azure Databricks that will support R as the primary language but will also support Scala and SQL. Which switch should you use to switch between languages?

The correct answer is B. %<language>. You can override the default language by specifying the language magic command %<language> at the beginning of a cell. The supported magic commands are: %python, %r, %scala, and %sql. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/notebooks/notebooks-use

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You are creating a new notebook in Azure Databricks that will support R as the primary language but will also support Scala and SQL. Which switch should you use to switch between languages?

Options

A\[<language>]
B%<language>
C\[<language>]
D@<language>

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A
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B
75% (24)
C
3% (1)
D
13% (4)

Explanation

You can override the default language by specifying the language magic command %<language> at the beginning of a cell. The supported magic commands are: %python, %r, %scala, and %sql. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/notebooks/notebooks-use

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