100 updates from Google Cloud.
The following table types now support <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/schemas#flexible-column-names">flexible column names</a> by default: • <a…
BigQuery offers <a href="https://research.google/blog/timesfm-3-a-zero-shot-foundation-model-for-multivariate-forecasting/">TimesFM 3.0</a>, a built-in time series forecasting model that implements…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-analytics#bigquery-ml-support">Conversational analytics in BigQuery</a> now supports the <a…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/iceberg-external-tables">Iceberg external tables</a> and <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/iceberg-tables">Iceberg managed…
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/data-engineering-agent/agent-overview">Data Engineering Agent</a> now supports the gemini-3.7-flash model for the us, eu, and global…
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries">Rust SDK for BigQuery</a> is now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-chat">Chatting with graphs</a> in <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-analytics#graphs">conversational…
An updated version of the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/odbc-jdbc-drivers#current_jdbc_driver">Simba JDBC driver for BigQuery</a> is now available.
You can now view the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/query-plan-explanation#dml_steps">UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE</a>, and <a…
The BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/security-center-overview">Security center</a> is now available in the Google Cloud console. You can use the Security center…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/objectref_functions#objlist">OBJ.LIST function</a> to perform spontaneous discovery and analysis of…
You can query the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/information-schema-failover-history">INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FAILOVER_HISTORY view</a> to retrieve a near real-time list of failover…
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-key-drivers">AI.KEY_DRIVERS function</a> is now <a…
You can now write the output rows produced by <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/continuous-queries-introduction">BigQuery continuous queries</a> directly into <a…
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/datatransfer/mcp">BigQuery Data Transfer Service MCP server</a> is now <a…
You can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/create-data-agents#publish-agent-gemini-enterprise">publish a BigQuery data agent in Gemini Enterprise</a> by registering the agent…
The Query results pane in the BigQuery Studio query editor lets you <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/managing-jobs#view-job">view a short history of recent runs for a…
BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/generative-ai-overview#locations">generative AI functions</a> now support the gemini-3.8-flash Gemini model.
You can <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/dataform/docs/test-data#unit-tests">add unit tests</a> to pipelines to validate your SQL transformation logic against mock datasets. Unit tests…
You can use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/migration/migration-lineage">migration lineage service</a> to visualize the data flow and connections in your source database…
An updated version of the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/odbc-jdbc-drivers#current_odbc_driver">Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery</a> is now available.
Metadata for <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-overview">BigQuery Graph</a> is automatically ingested and searchable in <a…
You can now include a WHERE clause inside of an <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/aggregate-function-calls">aggregate function call</a> to filter your…
You can use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-causal-effect">AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT</a> function to quantify the impact of specific…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/data-engineering-agent/agent-overview#schema-mapping-with-graph">The Data Engineering Agent now integrates with BigQuery Graph</a> to provide…
Conversational analytics in BigQuery now supports the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-correlation">ML.CORRELATION</a> function to…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-metrics">ML.METRICS function</a> to compute evaluation metrics for machine…
BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/generative-ai-overview#locations">generative AI functions</a> now support the following Gemini models: • gemini-3.5-flash-lite •…
Conversational analytics now supports predictive modeling questions using the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-predict">AI.PREDICT…
Conversational analytics now supports questions about <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-analytics#analytic_task_support">market basket analysis</a>. This feature…
An updated version of the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/odbc-jdbc-drivers#current_jdbc_driver">Simba JDBC driver for BigQuery</a> is now available.
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries">Rust SDK for BigQuery</a> is now in <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">Preview</a>.
You can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/create-pipelines">create, store</a>, and <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/manage-pipelines">manage pipelines</a>…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-overview">BigQuery Graph</a> is <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA). BigQuery…
You can now create an <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/identity-columns">identity column</a>, sometimes referred to as an auto-incrementing column, on a table. You can use…
BigQuery now supports <a href="https://research.google/blog/introducing-tabfm-a-zero-shot-foundation-model-for-tabular-data/">TabFM</a>, Google's pre-trained foundation model for tabular data. TabFM…
Using <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/code-asset-folders">folders</a> to <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/create-pipelines">create, store, and manage…
Support for <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/control-genai-costs">configuring daily token quotas</a> for BigQuery generative AI functions has been restored.
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/data-engineering-agent-pipelines">Data Engineering Agent</a> is now <a…
Core graph processing for <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-overview">BigQuery Graph</a> requires an Enterprise or Enterprise Plus edition reservation. Existing allowlisted…
You can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/user-defined-functions-python#use_logging">view real-time logs</a> for your Python UDFs in Cloud Logging. This feature is <a…
An Improper Input Validation vulnerability was discovered in the JDBC driver in BigQuery Data Transfer Service versions prior to May 1, 2026. An authenticated attacker could use crafted JDBC…
BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/tags#data-governance-tags">data governance tags</a> are supported in Terraform. This feature is in <a…
You can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/create-data-agents#monitor_agents_and_conversations">monitor</a> the performance, adoption, latency, and costs of your data agents and…
Starting April 26, 2027, core graph processing for <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-overview">BigQuery Graph</a> will be restricted to the <a…
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/sdk/use-gcloud-mcp#available-tools">run_bq_command tool</a> exposes the bq command-line tool within the Cloud CLI remote MCP server. AI agents can now…
The default per-project limit of user-specific <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reservations-assignments#assignment-logic-and-criteria">reservation assignments</a> has been…
Table Explorer behavior has moved to the Reference panel. Table Explorer has been deprecated. For more information, see "Use the Reference panel" in <a…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/query-templates">Query templates</a> for data clean rooms are <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally…
You can now use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/cross-cloud-connections">cross-cloud connections</a> to query data in AWS, Azure, and Salesforce Data 360 from all BigQuery…
The JDBC driver for BigQuery now supports <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/jdbc-for-bigquery#opentelemetry">OpenTelemetry</a> for tracing and logging, which helps you monitor the…
You can audit when users download query results by using the BigQuery console. Data Access audit logs for the tabledata.list method now include a <a…
The BigQuery Data Transfer Service now supports <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/klaviyo-transfer-intro#full_or_incremental_transfers">incremental data transfers</a> when…
You can use the Google-developed <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/odbc-for-bigquery">Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver for BigQuery</a> to connect your applications to…
BigQuery dataset insights is <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA). <a…
You can use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/change-history">APPENDS and CHANGES change history functions</a> to view the rows that were appended to or changed in a table…
An updated version of the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/odbc-jdbc-drivers#current_odbc_driver">Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery</a> is now available.
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/lakehouse/docs/introduction">Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg</a>: Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/lakehouse/docs/introduction">Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg</a>: Data Products with special characters, such as "/" or "-", are not supported and will not…
BigQuery supports <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/tags#data-governance-tags">data governance tags</a>, which let you enforce column-level security and data masking. Data…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-analytics#bigquery-ml-support">Conversational analytics</a> now supports the <a…
As part of <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/gemini-security-privacy-compliance">Gemini in BigQuery</a>, <a…
A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in repositories in BigQuery, Dataform, and Colab Enterprise. An authenticated attacker could potentially escalate permissions and perform…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reservations-workload-management#scheduling-policies">Project caps (also known as scheduling policies)</a> let you limit maximum slots and…
The BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/bigquery-web-ui#open-overview">Overview page</a> is a hub for discovering tutorials, features, and resources to help you get the most…
Incremental data transfers for the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/salesforce-transfer">BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Salesforce</a> are now <a…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/data-definition-language#alter_search_index_statement">ALTER SEARCH INDEX DDL statement</a> to <a…
Table partitioning, multi-statement transactions, and advanced runtime are now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA) for <a…
You can use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/use-bigquery-migration-mcp">BigQuery Migration Service MCP server</a> to perform SQL translation tasks, including translating SQL…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/data-cloud-extension">The Data Agent Kit extension</a> is an extension for agent coding tools, such as VS Code, Antigravity, and Cursor, that lets you interact…
You can now perform <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/aggregate-function-calls#multi_level_aggregation">multi-level aggregation</a> in GoogleSQL, which lets…
An updated version of the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/odbc-jdbc-drivers#current_odbc_driver">Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery</a> is now available.
For <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/facebook-ads-transfer">data transfers from Facebook Ads</a>, support for the AdInsightsMMM report has been temporarily disabled. Existing data…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/search_functions#vector_search">VECTOR_SEARCH function</a> to combine a semantic search with a lexical…
An updated version of the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/odbc-jdbc-drivers#current_odbc_driver">Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery</a> is now available.
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-analytics">Conversational analytics</a> in BigQuery is now <a…
You can enable <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/autonomous-embedding-generation">autonomous embedding generation</a> on new or existing tables that you make with the <a…
Table Explorer behavior is moving to the Reference panel. This transition will occur in July 2026 or later. For more information, see <a…
Support for configuring daily token quotas for BigQuery generative AI functions has been temporarily disabled. We are working to restore this feature as soon as possible.