BigQuery·BigQuery essentials

Partitioning

Partitioned tables reduce scanned bytes.

Intermediate 10 min read Lesson 3 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Partition by date.
  • Cluster by common filters.
  • Use _PARTITIONDATE.

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Partitioned tables reduce scanned bytes.

  • Partition by date.
  • Cluster by common filters.
  • Use _PARTITIONDATE.
partition.sqlSQL
CREATE TABLE analytics.lessons
PARTITION BY DATE(created_at)
AS SELECT * FROM staging.lessons;
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