Aug 4, 2015 · Through the API you can add comments to datasets, tables, and fields. You can retrieve comments through the API too, but not through a SQL interface. You can also see and edit annotations through the web UI (that uses the API to do so). See the API docs: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/v2/tables#resource

Jun 26, 2024 · If you ever need to pass on a note to the future you or a fellow developers about the reasoning behind a particular approach or something to watch out for in a query, you can write a comment.

Commenting in BigQuery SQL. BigQuery supports the following format for commenting code. The following is an example of single-line commenting, where anything from the start, to the end of that line is ignored when executing the query: #legacySQLSELECT repo_name, --repository name language.name --programming languageFROM [bigquery-public-data ...

Comments are used to explain sections of SQL statements, or to prevent execution of SQL statements. Note: Comments are not supported in Microsoft Access databases! Single line comments start with --. Any text between -- and the end of …

If you’re a BigQuery user, then please let me know some of the tips and tricks you use on a daily basis so I can add to this list. I’d love to know them. Thanks for reading!

Dec 13, 2022 · I want to create a view in BigQuery that also shows comments such as the author, date created etc. But if I try this in the UI the comments are left out. Is there a way to do this in the BigQuery U...

3 days ago · Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, and Databricks all support the ability to add inline SQL comments. With the exception of BigQuery, these data warehouses also support native database object-level comments; BigQuery does, however, support native field-level descriptions.

Oct 15, 2015 · Google's bigquery editor has keyboard shortcuts. For example ctrl+space composes a new query. I suspect there are more shortcuts, but I haven't found an useful list of them.

Part 2 of the 3 Part Formatting module. Learn how to write high quality notes in BigQuery (single line & multi-line comments)

Mar 17, 2019 · BigQuery is a query service that allows us to run SQL-like queries against multiple terabytes of data in a matter of seconds. If you have structured data, BigQuery is the best option to...