Use Duet AI to Write Queries in BigQuery
Your job is safe! Duet AI will not replace humans anytime soon. After all, you still need some foundational knowledge about SQL queries to benefit from Duet AI. However, if you know what you are doing, Duet AI inside BigQuery gives you wings. Let’s explore what that can look like.
BigQuery
BigQuery is Google’s fully managed, serverless cloud data warehouse. It is designed for storing, querying, and analyzing large datasets in real time. BigQuery is deeply integrated with the Google Cloud ecosystem, allowing easy access to tools and functions that live in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), such as Looker Data Studio for reporting.
The serverless nature of Google BigQuery means there is no need to manage infrastructure, allowing organizations to pay only for the queries run on BigQuery and the storage used. It also allows users to run ad hoc queries and data transformations against data stored in Google Cloud or one of the many supported cloud sources. This feature makes BigQuery a powerful and essential tool in the modern data stack.
The Query of Death
As someone’s uncle has said, “With great power comes great responsibility.” This is relevant here because BigQuery dialect naming conventions get confusing at times. BigQuery SQL is now legacy SQL and Google SQL is, since BigQuery 2.0, the preferred SQL dialect to use. Backwards compatibility for BigQuery SQL, now legacy SQL, makes ...
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