I am trying to store date datatype column in BigQuery via Spark
cast(from_unixtime(eventtime*60) as date) as createdDate
I have tried to_date as well like below, but no luck
to_date(from_unixtime(eventtime*60)) as createdDate
Now I am trying to save this dataset using Spark-BigQuery connector, it is giving me error that field createdDate has changed type from DATE to INTEGER. But when I try to print the schema in spark, its correctly saying that the column data types is Date.
|-- createdDate: date (nullable = false)
Not sure why its failing while loading data into BigQuery.
And the same things works if I change the data types from Date to Timestamp. Please advice.
The resolution is to use intermediateFormat as Orc. With intermediate format as Avro it is not working, and we can't use parquet(default) format as we have array data type in our table where Big Query create intermediate format like explained here.
Save Array<T> in BigQuery using Java
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Been struggling with some datasets I want to use which have a problem with the date format.
Bigquery could not load the files and returned the following error:
Could not parse '4/12/2016 2:47:30 AM' as TIMESTAMP for field date (position 1) starting at location 21 with message 'Invalid time zone:
AM'
I have been able to upload the file manually but as strings, and now would like to set the fields back to the proper format, However, I just could not find a way to change the format of the date column from string to proper DateTime format.
Would love to know if this is possible as the file is just too long to be formatted in excel or sheets (as I have done with the smaller files from this dataset).
now would like to set the fields back to the proper format ... from string to proper DateTime format
Use parse_datetime('%m/%d/%Y %r', string_col) to parse datetime out of string
If applied to sample string in your question - you got
As #Mikhail Berlyant rightly said, using the parse_datetime('%m/%d/%Y %r', string_col)
function will convert your badly formatted dates to a standard format as per ISO 8601 accepted by Google Bigquery . the best option will then be to save these query results to a new table on the database in your Bigquery Project.
I had a similar issue.
Below is an image of my table which i uploaded with all columns in String format .
Next up was that i applied the following settings to the query below
The Settings below stored the query output to a new table called heartrateSeconds_clean on the same dataset
The Write if empty option is a good option to avoid overwriting the existing raw data or just arbitrarily writing output to a temporary table, except if you are sure you want to do so. Save the settings and proceed to Run your Query.
As seen below, the output schema of the new table is automatically updated
Below is the new preview of the resulting table
NB: I did not apply an ORDER BY clause to the Results hence the data is not ordered by any specific column in both versions of the same table.
This dataset has over 2M rows.
Been struggling with some datasets I want to use which have a problem with the date format.
Bigquery could not load the files and returned the following error:
Could not parse '4/12/2016 2:47:30 AM' as TIMESTAMP for field date (position 1) starting at location 21 with message 'Invalid time zone:
AM'
I have been able to upload the file manually but as strings, and now would like to set the fields back to the proper format, However, I just could not find a way to change the format of the date column from string to proper DateTime format.
Would love to know if this is possible as the file is just too long to be formatted in excel or sheets (as I have done with the smaller files from this dataset).
now would like to set the fields back to the proper format ... from string to proper DateTime format
Use parse_datetime('%m/%d/%Y %r', string_col) to parse datetime out of string
If applied to sample string in your question - you got
As #Mikhail Berlyant rightly said, using the parse_datetime('%m/%d/%Y %r', string_col)
function will convert your badly formatted dates to a standard format as per ISO 8601 accepted by Google Bigquery . the best option will then be to save these query results to a new table on the database in your Bigquery Project.
I had a similar issue.
Below is an image of my table which i uploaded with all columns in String format .
Next up was that i applied the following settings to the query below
The Settings below stored the query output to a new table called heartrateSeconds_clean on the same dataset
The Write if empty option is a good option to avoid overwriting the existing raw data or just arbitrarily writing output to a temporary table, except if you are sure you want to do so. Save the settings and proceed to Run your Query.
As seen below, the output schema of the new table is automatically updated
Below is the new preview of the resulting table
NB: I did not apply an ORDER BY clause to the Results hence the data is not ordered by any specific column in both versions of the same table.
This dataset has over 2M rows.
I am referring to a similar post which i found very useful. It shows how we can load an integer column in an avro file to a BigQuery table containing a timestamp field.
Compatibility of Avro dates and times with BigQuery?
I have a similar question. Is there a way to load an integer value in an avro file to a date column in bigquery?
Since avro does not support date datatype, I have tried keeping the date as a string field in the avro and tried loading it into the date field in BigQuery. But this does not work.
If i knew how BigQuery stores dates internally maybe i could try converting my date to that value and then load it to BQ.
Any suggestions how i can do this?
It is not possible to load integer column from Avro into DATE column in BigQuery directly. You can load Avro file into intermediate table which will have integer column, and then run SQL query which translates this integer into DATE using DATE_FROM_UNIX_DATE function (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/functions-and-operators#date_from_unix_date)
I've got a huge (1.5GB) CSV file, with dates in it in the format 2014-12-25. I have managed to upload it to BigQuery with the format string for this column. I'm wondering if I can transform this in situ to a datetime format, without having to download the data, parse it and send it back?
I have used the BigQuery GUI (newbie) but am happy to use the CLI if this will make it easier.
You can use some of Date and time functions to "transform" string represented date to datetime
For example
SELECT '2014-12-25', TIMESTAMP('2014-12-25')
Added:
If you feel that you really need to have your data with date in timestamp format vs string and you have this data (string) already in BigQuery - you can do just similar to below query with writing to new table.
SELECT
TIMESTAMP(date_string) as date_timestamp,
< list all the rest of the fields >
FROM original_table
I'm uploading a CSV file to Google BigQuery using bq load on the command line. It's working great, but I've got a question about converting timestamps on the fly.
In my source data, my timestamps are formatted as YYYYMM, e.g. 201303 meaning March 2013.
However, Google BigQuery's timestamp fields are documented as only supporting Unix timestamps and YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format strings. So unsurprisingly, when I load the data, these fields don't convert to the correct date.
Is there any way I can convey to BigQuery that these are YYYYMM strings?
If not I can convert them before loading, but I have about 1TB of source data, so I'm keen to avoid that if possible :)
Another alternative is to load this field as STRING, and convert it to TIMESTAMP inside BigQuery itself, copying the data into another table (and deleting the original one afterwards), and doing the following transformation:
SELECT TIMESTAMP(your_ts_str + "01") AS ts
An alternative to Mosha's answer can be achieved by:
SELECT DATE(CONCAT(your_ts_str, "01")) as ts