I often want to load one day's worth of data into a date-partitioned BigQuery table, replacing any data that's already there. I know how to do this for 'old-style' data partitioned tables (the ones that have a _PARTITIONTIME field) but don't know how to do this with the new-style date-partitioned tables (which use a normal date/timestamp column to specify the partitioning because they don't allow one to use the $ decorator.
Let's say I want to do this on my_table. With old-style date-partitioned tables, I accomplished this using a load job that utilized the $ decorator and the WRITE_TRUNCATE write disposition -- e.g., I'd set the destination table to be my_table$20181005.
However, I'm not sure how to perform the equivalent operation using a DML. I find myself performing separate DELETE and INSERT commands. This isn't great because it increases complexity, the number of queries, and the operation isn't atomic.
I want to know how to do this using the MERGE command to keep this all contained within a single, atomic operation. However I can't wrap my head around the MERGE command's syntax and haven't found an example for this use case. Does anyone know how this should be done?
The ideal answer would be a DML statement that selected all columns from source_table and inserted it into the 2018-10-05 date partition of my_table, deleting any existing data that was in my_table's 2018-10-05 date partition. We can assume that source_table and my_table have the same schemas, and that my_table is partitioned on the day column, which is of type DATE.
because they don't allow one to use the $ decorator
But they do--you can use table_name$YYYYMMDD when you load into column-based partitioned table as well. For example, I made a partitioned table:
$ bq query --use_legacy_sql=false "CREATE TABLE tmp_elliottb.PartitionedTable (x INT64, y NUMERIC, date DATE) PARTITION BY date"
Then I loaded into a specific partition:
$ echo "1,3.14,2018-11-07" > row.csv
$ bq load "tmp_elliottb.PartitionedTable\$20181107" ./row.csv
I tried to load into the wrong partition for the input data, and received an error:
$ echo "1,3.14,2018-11-07" > row.csv
$ bq load "tmp_elliottb.PartitionedTable\$20181105" ./row.csv
Some rows belong to different partitions rather than destination partition 20181105
I then replaced the data for the partition:
$ echo "2,0.11,2018-11-07" > row.csv
$ bq load --replace "tmp_elliottb.PartitionedTable\$20181107" ./row.csv
Yes, you can use MERGE as a way of replacing data for a partitioned table's partition, but you can also use a load job.
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In our BQ export schema, we have one table for each day as per the screenshot below.
I want to copy the tables before a certain date (2021-feb-07). I know how to copy one day at a time via the UI, but is there not a way to use the cloud console to write a code for copying the selected date range, all at once? Or maybe an sql command directly from a query window?
I think you should transform your sharding tables into a partitioned table. So you can handled your tables with just a single query. As mention in the official documentation, partitioned tables perform better.
To make the conversion, you can just execute the following commands in the console.
bq partition \
--time_partitioning_type=DAY \
--time_partitioning_expiration 259200 \
mydataset.sourcetable_ \
mydataset.mytable_partitioned
This will make your sharded tables sourcetable_(xxx) into a single partitioned table mytable_partitioned which can be query with just a single query trough your entire set of data entries.
SELECT
*
FROM
`myprojectid.mydataset.mytable_partitioned`
WHERE
_PARTITIONTIME BETWEEN TIMESTAMP('2022-01-01') AND TIMESTAMP('2022-01-03')
For more details about the conversion commands you can check this link. Also, I recommend to check the links about querying partionated tables and partiotioned tables for more details.
Is it even possible to add a partition to an existing table in Athena that currently is without partitions? If so, please also write syntax for doing so in the answer.
For example:
ALTER TABLE table1 ADD PARTITION (ourDateStringCol = '2021-01-01')
The above command will give the following error:
FAILED: SemanticException table is not partitioned but partition spec exists
Note: I have done a web-search, and variants exist for SQL server, or adding a partition to an already partitioned table. However, I personally could not find a case where one could successfully add a partition to an existing non-partitioned table.
This is extremely similar to:
SemanticException adding partiton Hive table
However, the answer given there requires re-creating the table.
I want to do so without re-creating the table.
Partitions in Athena are based on folder structure in S3. Unlike standard RDBMS that are loading the data into their disks or memory, Athena is based on scanning data in S3. This is how you enjoy the scale and low cost of the service.
What it means is that you have to have your data in different folders in a meaningful structure such as year=2019, year=2020, and make sure that the data for each year is all and only in that folder.
The simple solution is to run a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) query that will copy the data and create a new table that can be optimized for your analytical queries. You can choose the table format (Parquet, for example), the compression (SNAPPY, for example), and also the partition schema (per year, for example).
I have a use case where I have to replace the data in a partition of a table in BigQuery every time 15 mins. Are there any functions available in Bigquery similar to partition exchange in Bigquery or any provision to truncate data of a partition.
Regarding your requirement to load new data every fifteen minutes into a partitioned table you could use Data Manipulation Language (DML).
In order to update rows in a partitioned table you could use the UPDATE statement as stated in the documentation.
Also, in case that you wanted to overwrite partitions you could also use a load job using the CLI as stated here. Using --noreplace or --replace you can specify if you want to append or truncate the given partition.
Using the Bigquery Schedule functionality, is it possible to write truncate a partition using the run_time parameters like #run_time?
What I am trying to do is to give the destination table_name like mytable${run_time|"%Y%m%d"}, but this gives me an error saying:
Invalid partition decorator in column-partitioned table mytable$20200124 with partitioning field { value: "event_date" }
If I don't give the partition decorate the whole table is written truncated irrespective of the partition
Yes, it is possible. I just replicated it with the following configuration
Notice that the Partitioning field is empty. In addition, I found this issue where is provided the following workaround:
[...] If you just want to overwrite on partition, you could use MERGE statement on the query and set the "Destination table" to the column-partitioned table.
Note: this is nearly a duplicate of this question with the distinction that in this case, the source table is date partitioned and the destination table does not yet exist. Also, the accepted solution to that question didn't work in this case.
I'm trying to copy a single day's worth of data from one date partitioned table into a new date partitoined table that I have not yet created. My hope is that BigQuery would simply create the date-partitioned destination table for me like it usually does for the non-date-partitioned case.
Using BigQuery CLI, here's my command:
bq cp mydataset.sourcetable\$20161231 mydataset.desttable\$20161231
Here's the output of that command:
BigQuery error in cp operation: Error processing job
'myproject:bqjob_bqjobid': Partitioning specification must be provided
in order to create partitioned table
I've tried doing something similar using the python SDK: running a select command on a date partitioned table (which selects data from only one date partition) and saving the results into a new destination table (which I hope would also be date partitioned). The job fails with the same error:
{u'message': u'Partitioning specification must be provided in order to
create partitioned table', u'reason': u'invalid'}
Clearly I need to add a partitioning specification, but I couldn't find any documentation on how to do so.
You need to create the partitioned destination table first (as per the docs):
If you want to copy a partitioned table into another partitioned
table, the partition specifications for the source and destination
tables must match.
So, just create the destination partitioned table before you start copying. If you can't be bothered specifying the schema, you can create the destination partitioned table like so:
bq mk --time_partitioning_type=DAY mydataset.temps
Then, use a query instead of a copy to write to the destination table. The schema will be copied with it:
bq query --allow_large_results --replace --destination_table 'mydataset.temps$20160101''SELECT * from `source`'