google-big-queryHow do I use Google BigQuery language to query data?
Google BigQuery is a serverless, highly scalable, and cost-effective cloud data warehouse. It enables you to query large datasets using a SQL-like language called BigQuery SQL. Here is an example of a query in BigQuery SQL to count the number of records in a table:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.shakespeare`
Output example
COUNT(*)
112376
Code explanation
SELECT
- specifies which columns of the table you want to query. In this case, the asterisk (*) is used to select all columns.FROM
- specifies the source table you want to query. In this case, the table isbigquery-public-data.samples.shakespeare
.COUNT(*)
- returns the number of records that meet the criteria of theSELECT
statement.
For more information on using BigQuery SQL to query data, please refer to the Google Cloud BigQuery Documentation.
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