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  • Try BigQuery using the sandbox
  • Get started
  • Console walkthroughs and videos
  • Use the console
    • Explore the console
    • Load and query data
    • Use Notebook gallery
    • Create reservations
    • Try DataFrames
  • Use agents
    • Analyze data with the Colab Data Science Agent
  • Use the bq CLI tool
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  • Plan
  • Introduction to the resource hierarchy
  • API dependencies
  • Datasets
    • Introduction
    • Create datasets
    • List datasets
    • Cross-region replication
    • Managed disaster recovery
    • Migrate to managed disaster recovery
    • Dataset data retention
  • Tables
    • BigQuery tables
      • Introduction
      • Create and use tables
      • Specify table schemas
        • Specify a schema
        • Specify nested and repeated columns
        • Specify default column values
        • Specify ObjectRef values
      • Segment with partitioned tables
        • Introduction
        • Create partitioned tables
        • Manage partitioned tables
        • Query partitioned tables
      • Optimize with clustered tables
        • Introduction
        • Create clustered tables
        • Manage clustered tables
        • Query clustered tables
      • Use metadata indexing
    • External data sources
      • Introduction
      • BigLake tables
        • Introduction
        • Create Amazon S3 BigLake tables
        • Create Azure Blob storage BigLake tables
        • Create Cloud Storage BigLake tables
      • Object tables
        • Introduction
        • Create Cloud Storage object tables
      • External tables
        • Introduction
        • Create Apache Iceberg external tables
        • Create Bigtable external tables
        • Create Cloud Storage external tables
        • Create Google Drive external tables
      • Use metadata caching
      • Manage Hive partitioned data
      • Create a table definition file for external data
      • Federated datasets
        • Create and manage AWS Glue federated datasets
        • Create Spanner external datasets
    • Apache Iceberg managed tables
    • Interact with Lakehouse data
  • Views
    • Overview
    • Logical views
      • Introduction