Re:Reducing BigQuery Costs
by michaelt on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:03AM
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> To me at least itβs [...] non-straightforward to say that this query I wrote is going to scan the data in a new and expensive way. Am I doing it wrong?
When you put a query in the BigQuery console, it'll tell you "This query will process ??? MB when run" at the top right.
So if you code all your queries interactively in production (which is what everyone else is doing anyway) it's not too hard to keep an eye on.
When you put a query in the BigQuery console, it'll tell you "This query will process ??? MB when run" at the top right.
So if you code all your queries interactively in production (which is what everyone else is doing anyway) it's not too hard to keep an eye on.