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WriteDisposition

Specifies the action that occurs if the destination table already exists.

Enums
`WRITE_DISPOSITION_UNSPECIFIED`	Write disposition is not specified. Defaults to WRITE_TRUNCATE.
`WRITE_TRUNCATE`	If the table already exists, BigQuery will overwrite the table data and use the schema from the load.
`WRITE_APPEND`	If the table already exists, BigQuery will append data to the table.

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