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Try BigQuery using the sandbox
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BigQuery tables
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Create and use tables
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Introduction
Create partitioned tables
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Create clustered tables
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BigLake tables
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Create Amazon S3 BigLake tables
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Create Cloud Storage BigLake tables
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Create Cloud Storage object tables
External tables
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Create Apache Iceberg external tables
Create Bigtable external tables
Create Cloud Storage external tables
Create Google Drive external tables
Use metadata caching
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Create a table definition file for external data
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Create and manage AWS Glue federated datasets
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Create materialized views
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Build a data pipeline with Data Engineering Agent
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Migrate schema and data
Migrate data pipelines
Use custom organization policies
Migrate SQL
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Translate SQL queries in batch
Generate metadata for translation and assessment
Transform SQL translations with YAML
Map SQL object names for batch translation
Load data
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BigQuery Data Transfer Service
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Transfer data into Managed Iceberg tables
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Auto-detect schemas
Load Avro data
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Load data into partitioned tables
Write and read data with the Storage API
Read data with the Storage Read API
Write data with the Storage Write API
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Use the Storage Write API (gRPC)
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Stream updates with change data capture ingestion
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Load data using BigQuery Omni operations
Optimize load jobs
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Prepare data with Gemini
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