What is bigquery-basics?

A guide and command-line workflow for Google BigQuery, a managed service for storing and querying large datasets with SQL and Python.

Use it to manage BigQuery resources, run SQL jobs, analyse large datasets, and work with BigQuery ML, geospatial analysis, or Gemini features.

It explains how to create datasets and tables, run queries, and use BigQuery's built-in analytics and machine-learning features without managing database servers.

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
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Opus 5.5	$0.00034	$0.00484
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00242
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00121

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BigQuery Basics

BigQuery is a serverless, AI-ready data platform that enables high-speed analysis of large datasets using SQL and Python. Its disaggregated architecture separates compute and storage, allowing them to scale independently while providing built-in machine learning, geospatial analysis, and business intelligence capabilities.

Setup and Basic Usage

Enable the BigQuery API:

gcloud services enable bigquery.googleapis.com

Create a Dataset:

bq mk --dataset --location=US my_dataset

Create a Table:

Create a file named schema.json with your table schema:

[
  {
    "name": "name",
    "type": "STRING",
    "mode": "REQUIRED"
  },
  {
    "name": "post_abbr",
    "type": "STRING",
    "mode": "NULLABLE"
  }
]

Then create the table with the bq tool:

bq mk --table my_dataset.mytable schema.json

Run a Query:

bq query --use_legacy_sql=false \
'SELECT name FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013` \
WHERE state = "TX" LIMIT 10'

Reference Directory

Core Concepts: Storage types, analytics workflows, and BigQuery Studio features.
CLI Usage: Essential bq command-line tool operations for managing data and jobs.
Client Libraries: Using Google Cloud client libraries for Python, Java, Node.js, and Go.
MCP Usage: Using the BigQuery remote MCP server and Gemini CLI extension.
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform examples for datasets, tables, and reservations.
IAM & Security: Roles, permissions, and data governance best practices.

If you need product information not found in these references, use the Developer Knowledge MCP server search_documents tool.

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bigquery-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository techequitycloud/rad-modules (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,210 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to bigquery-basics, differing in 32 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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