diff --git a/packages/pyright-internal/src/analyzer/sourceFile.ts b/packages/pyright-internal/src/analyzer/sourceFile.ts
index 9ede64cc18..3ccdb6a4f3 100644
--- a/packages/pyright-internal/src/analyzer/sourceFile.ts
+++ b/packages/pyright-internal/src/analyzer/sourceFile.ts
@@ -573,6 +573,15 @@ export class SourceFile {
         try {
             //TODO: this isnt ideal because it re-reads the file for each cell which is unnecessary
             source = getIPythonCells(this.fileSystem, this.getRealUri(), this._console)?.[cellIndex]?.source;
+            // Make sure we don't return any non-python cells
+            if (
+                source &&
+                ['%sql', '%%sql', '%sh', '%pip', '%run', '%fs', '%load', '%matplotlib', '%who', '%env'].includes(
+                    source[0].split(/[\s]/)[0]
+                )
+            ) {
+                return '';
+            }
         } catch (e) {
             this._console.error(e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e));
         }
diff --git a/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/notebooks.test.ts b/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/notebooks.test.ts
index df5bb23180..7d8f3fe47f 100644
--- a/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/notebooks.test.ts
+++ b/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/notebooks.test.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { ErrorTrackingNullConsole, typeAnalyzeSampleFiles, validateResultsButBas
 
 test('symbol from previous cell', () => {
     const analysisResults = typeAnalyzeSampleFiles(['notebook.ipynb']);
-    tExpect(analysisResults.length).toStrictEqual(2);
+    tExpect(analysisResults.length).toStrictEqual(3);
     validateResultsButBased(analysisResults[0], {
         errors: [],
     });
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ test('symbol from previous cell', () => {
             },
         ],
     });
+    validateResultsButBased(analysisResults[2], {
+        errors: [],
+    });
 });
 
 test('non-python cell', () => {
diff --git a/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/samples/notebook.ipynb b/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/samples/notebook.ipynb
index a2385e29e1..e4f04572e7 100644
--- a/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/samples/notebook.ipynb
+++ b/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/samples/notebook.ipynb
@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@
    "source": [
     "bar: str = foo"
    ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "%sql\n",
+    "SELECT 1 AS foo, 2 AS bar"
+   ]
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {