Our mission at Google Cloud is to help our customers fuel data driven transformations. As a step towards this, BigQuery is removing its limit as a SQL-only interface and providing new developer extensions for workloads that require programming beyond SQL. These flexible programming extensions are all offered…

In Google work on the Big Data solutions architecture, BigQuery, and Dataproc teams, we talk to a lot of customers who are interested in migrating all or part of their data warehouse from Apache Hive to BigQuery, but who have hit some speed bumps along the way. To…

Do you have a lot of BigQuery tables? Do you find it hard to keep track of which ones are partitioned and clustered, and which ones could be? If so, we have good news. Google are launching a partitioning and clustering recommender that will do the work…

Many digital marketers and analysts use BigQuery to bring marketing data sources together, like Google Analytics and Google Ads, to uncover insights about their marketing campaigns and websites. Google are excited to dive deeper into a new type of connection that adds Google Search data into this mix.  Earlier…

When peer-to-peer marketplace Mercari came to the US in 2014, it had its work cut out for it. Surrounded by market giants like eBay, Craigslist, and Wish, Mercari needed to carve out an approach to compete for new users. Furthermore, Mercari wanted to build a network for…

Mark MirchandaniGoogle Cloud Developer Advocate Export your billing data to BigQuery to keep track of your cloud costs Regular file export for Google Cloud billing is going away on May 15th! Try out this interactive tutorial to set up exporting and explore your billing data with BigQuery…

Google are committed to building the most open and extensible Data Cloud. Google want to provide our customers with more flexibility, interoperability and agility when building analytics solutions using BigQuery and tightly integrated partner products. Google have therefore significantly expanded our Data Cloud partner ecosystem, and are…