Preview table data

Retrieve selected row data from a table.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Managing table data
• Read data with BigQuery API using pagination

Code sample

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

using Google.Api.Gax;
using Google.Apis.Bigquery.v2.Data;
using Google.Cloud.BigQuery.V2;
using System;
using System.Linq;

public class BigQueryBrowseTable
{
    public void BrowseTable(
        string projectId = "your-project-id"
    )
    {
        BigQueryClient client = BigQueryClient.Create(projectId);
        TableReference tableReference = new TableReference()
        {
            TableId = "shakespeare",
            DatasetId = "samples",
            ProjectId = "bigquery-public-data"
        };
        // Load all rows from a table
        PagedEnumerable<TableDataList, BigQueryRow> result = client.ListRows(
            tableReference: tableReference,
            schema: null
        );
        // Print the first 10 rows
        foreach (BigQueryRow row in result.Take(10))
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"{row["corpus"]}: {row["word_count"]}");
        }
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	"cloud.google.com/go/bigquery"
	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
)

// browseTable demonstrates reading data from a BigQuery table directly without the use of a query.
// For large tables, we also recommend the BigQuery Storage API.
func browseTable(w io.Writer, projectID, datasetID, tableID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// datasetID := "mydataset"
	// tableID := "mytable"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := bigquery.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("bigquery.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	table := client.Dataset(datasetID).Table(tableID)
	it := table.Read(ctx)
	for {
		var row []bigquery.Value
		err := it.Next(&row)
		if err == iterator.Done {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		fmt.Fprintln(w, row)
	}
	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery.TableDataListOption;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableId;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableResult;

// Sample to directly browse a table with optional paging
public class BrowseTable {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String table = "MY_TABLE_NAME";
    String dataset = "MY_DATASET_NAME";
    browseTable(dataset, table);
  }

  public static void browseTable(String dataset, String table) {
    try {
      // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
      // once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
      BigQuery bigquery = BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();

      // Identify the table itself
      TableId tableId = TableId.of(dataset, table);

      // Page over 100 records. If you don't need pagination, remove the pageSize parameter.
      TableResult result = bigquery.listTableData(tableId, TableDataListOption.pageSize(100));

      // Print the records
      result
          .iterateAll()
          .forEach(
              row -> {
                row.forEach(fieldValue -> System.out.print(fieldValue.toString() + ", "));
                System.out.println();
              });

      System.out.println("Query ran successfully");
    } catch (BigQueryException e) {
      System.out.println("Query failed to run \n" + e.toString());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

// Import the Google Cloud client library using default credentials
const {BigQuery} = require('@google-cloud/bigquery');
const bigquery = new BigQuery();

async function browseTable() {
  // Retrieve a table's rows using manual pagination.

  /**
   * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
   */
  // const datasetId = 'my_dataset'; // Existing dataset
  // const tableId = 'my_table'; // Table to create

  const query = `SELECT name, SUM(number) as total_people
    FROM \`bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013\`
    GROUP BY name 
    ORDER BY total_people 
    DESC LIMIT 100`;

  // Create table reference.
  const dataset = bigquery.dataset(datasetId);
  const destinationTable = dataset.table(tableId);

  // For all options, see https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest/v2/Job#jobconfigurationquery
  const queryOptions = {
    query: query,
    destination: destinationTable,
  };

  // Run the query as a job
  const [job] = await bigquery.createQueryJob(queryOptions);

  // For all options, see https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/v2/jobs/getQueryResults
  const queryResultsOptions = {
    // Retrieve zero resulting rows.
    maxResults: 0,
  };

  // Wait for the job to finish.
  await job.getQueryResults(queryResultsOptions);

  function manualPaginationCallback(err, rows, nextQuery) {
    rows.forEach(row => {
      console.log(`name: ${row.name}, ${row.total_people} total people`);
    });

    if (nextQuery) {
      // More results exist.
      destinationTable.getRows(nextQuery, manualPaginationCallback);
    }
  }

  // For all options, see https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/v2/tabledata/list
  const getRowsOptions = {
    autoPaginate: false,
    maxResults: 20,
  };

  // Retrieve all rows.
  destinationTable.getRows(getRowsOptions, manualPaginationCallback);
}
browseTable();

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

use Google\Cloud\BigQuery\BigQueryClient;

/**
 * Browses the given table for data
 *
 * @param string $projectId The project Id of your Google Cloud Project.
 * @param string $datasetId The BigQuery dataset ID.
 * @param string $tableId The BigQuery table ID.
 * @param int $startIndex Zero-based index of the starting row.
 */
function browse_table(
    string $projectId,
    string $datasetId,
    string $tableId,
    int $startIndex = 0
): void {
    // Query options
    $maxResults = 10;
    $options = [
      'maxResults' => $maxResults,
      'startIndex' => $startIndex
    ];

    $bigQuery = new BigQueryClient([
      'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    $dataset = $bigQuery->dataset($datasetId);
    $table = $dataset->table($tableId);
    $numRows = 0;
    foreach ($table->rows($options) as $row) {
        print('---');
        foreach ($row as $column => $value) {
            printf('%s: %s' . PHP_EOL, $column, $value);
        }
        $numRows++;
    }
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

from google.cloud import bigquery

# Construct a BigQuery client object.
client = bigquery.Client()

# TODO(developer): Set table_id to the ID of the table to browse data rows.
# table_id = "your-project.your_dataset.your_table_name"

# Download all rows from a table.
rows_iter = client.list_rows(table_id)  # Make an API request.

# Iterate over rows to make the API requests to fetch row data.
rows = list(rows_iter)
print("Downloaded {} rows from table {}".format(len(rows), table_id))

# Download at most 10 rows.
rows_iter = client.list_rows(table_id, max_results=10)
rows = list(rows_iter)
print("Downloaded {} rows from table {}".format(len(rows), table_id))

# Specify selected fields to limit the results to certain columns.
table = client.get_table(table_id)  # Make an API request.
fields = table.schema[:2]  # First two columns.
rows_iter = client.list_rows(table_id, selected_fields=fields, max_results=10)
print("Selected {} columns from table {}.".format(len(rows_iter.schema), table_id))

rows = list(rows_iter)
print("Downloaded {} rows from table {}".format(len(rows), table_id))

# Print row data in tabular format.
rows_iter = client.list_rows(table_id, max_results=10)
format_string = "{!s:<16} " * len(rows_iter.schema)
field_names = [field.name for field in rows_iter.schema]
print(format_string.format(*field_names))  # Prints column headers.

for row in rows_iter:
    print(format_string.format(*row))  # Prints row data.

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

require "google/cloud/bigquery"

def browse_table
  bigquery = Google::Cloud::Bigquery.new project_id: "bigquery-public-data"
  dataset  = bigquery.dataset "samples"
  table    = dataset.table "shakespeare"

  # Load all rows from a table
  rows = table.data

  # Load the first 10 rows
  rows = table.data max: 10

  # Print row data
  rows.each { |row| puts row }
end

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