Harnessing the Full Potential of BigQuery Table Functions

I come from SQL Server land, it was a great place to live. It’s an even better place to live if you know what you are doing (and I like to think I knew what I was doing — from time to time). I tell you this because, for the better part of my career, […]

A Data Engineers switch from AWS to GCP first thoughts

I’ve always been an AWS kind of guy not by choice, but just because every where I worked they had AWS. Sure, there were few places who had Azure – cue the developers in the room grumbling about Microsoft . Azure was doing something or other, but I just didn’t have any exposure to Azure […]

How To Pin public datasets to a Project In Google BigQuery

I recently started spending more time in GCP, so this is a short and sweet post on how to pin the bigquery-public-data dataset in Google BigQuery in three easy steps. I clicked around for ages trying to figure this out, but thanks to a little bit of googling and dumb luck I figured it out. […]