Helpful BigQuery Tutorials
August 27, 2026 · BQBrains Team
A practical guide to real-time ingestion in BigQuery — when to use the Storage Write API, Datastream change data capture, or continuous queries, plus dedupe, freshness monitoring, and cost control patterns.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · BQBrains Team
A decision table by cardinality and filter pattern, the DDL, how to measure bytes billed before and after, and when neither helps and you need a search index.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · BQBrains Team
A prompt-to-Dataform walkthrough of the agent that went GA in April 2026, the SQLX it produced, what we changed before merging, and an honest list of its failure modes.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · BQBrains Team
Generate embeddings with ML.GENERATE_EMBEDDING, create an IVF or TreeAH vector index, write VECTOR_SEARCH queries, and finish with a minimal RAG query over a public dataset.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · BQBrains Team
Six copy-paste audit queries — top users, costliest statements, slot-hour hotspots, cache-hit rate, scheduled-query waste, missing partition filters — and the Looker Studio dashboard to keep them honest.
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