We have a set of events (kind of log) that we want to connect to get the current state. To improve performance/cost further, we would like to create snapshots (in order to not check all the events in history, but only from the last snapshot). Logs and snapshots are the tables with date suffix.
This approach works OK in the BQ, but we need to manually define the query every time. Is there any way to define 'view' with parameters (e.g. dates for the table range query)? Or any plans to do something like that?
I know that there are some topics connected with TABLE_RANGE / QUERY in views (eg Use of TABLE_DATE_RANGE function in Views). Are there any new information on this subject?
That's a great feature request - but currently not supported. Please leave more details at https://code.google.com/p/google-bigquery/issues/list, the BigQuery team takes these requests very seriously!
As a workaround i wrote a small framework to generate complex queries with help of velocity templates. Just published it at https://github.com/softkot/gbq
Now you can use Table Functions (aka table-valued functions - TVF) to achieve this. They are very similar to a view but they accept a parameter. I've tested and they really help to save a lot while keeping future queries simple, since the complexity is inside the Table Function definition. It receives a parameter that you can then use inside the query for filtering.
This example is from the documentation:
CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE FUNCTION mydataset.names_by_year(y INT64)
AS
SELECT year, name, SUM(number) AS total
FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current`
WHERE year = y
GROUP BY year, name
Then you just query it like this:
SELECT * FROM mydataset.names_by_year(1950)
More details can be found in the oficial documentation.
You can have a look at BigQuery scripting that have been released in beta : https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/scripting
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I am really new to the hive space and am learning as we go. Anyway, currently I am using a SQL Server Table function that accepts several input parameters and returns a table of dates (invoicedate,duedate).
For example, i would pass in ('2017-01-01',12,30,3) (date, duration, terms,interval) and the output would be something like:
'2017-01-01','2017-02-01'
'2017-04-01','2017-05-01'
'2017-09-01','2017-10-01'
'2017-10-01','2018-01-01'
First, is this feasible to do within the hive environment? And second, if so, I'm thinking the UDTF would be the method. If anyone has any thoughts or can point me to an online example they have seen, i would be greatly appreciative.
What you want is a UDTF:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/DeveloperGuide+UDTF
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I would like to create a UDF named maxDate in BigQuery that does the following:
maxDate('table_name') returns the result from running the query below:
select max(table_id) from fact.___TABLES____ where table_id < 'table_name';
I'm quite new to JS and not too sure how to start. This looks like a simple thing to write. Could anyone point me in the right way? I've read the documentation, and unsure of how to write this.
Scalar UDF are not existent yet in BigQuery
See more about BigQuery User-Defined Functions to understand what are they today.
To simplify - think of today's UDF as virtual table that you can query and this table in turn powered by real table where each row is processed row-by-row and javascript code is applied for each row and generates (instead of this input row) zero, one or many (depends of inplemented in js logic) rows)
Is there any any way to use TABLE_DATE_RANGE or TABLE_QUERY with table decorators?
I would like to extract all "new records" (added in past 2 hours) from a set of tables.
Many thanks
Not currently. That's an interesting feature request, however. I'm trying to think of what the syntax would look like. Perhaps where the dataset name / prefix is used we could use a *, as in
TABLE_DATE_RANGE(dataset1.prefix*#time, timestamp1, timestamp2) or
TABLE_QUERY(dataset1.prefix*#time, 'where clause')
I've filed a feature request.
I have a BigQuery database where daily data is uploaded into it's own table. So I have tables named "20131201", "20131202", etc. I can write a fixed query to "merge" those tables by doing:
SELECT * FROM db.20131201, db.20131202, ...
I'd like to have a single query that does not require me to update the Custom SQL everytime a new table is added. Something like:
SELECT * FROM db.*
Which currently doesn't work. I would like to avoid making one giant table. Is there a work-around that I can do, or will this have to be a feature request?
End-goal is for a Tableau data connection to all the tables.
This isn't exactly what you've asked for, but I've managed to use https://developers.google.com/bigquery/query-reference#tablewildcardfunctions in particular
TABLE_DATE_RANGE(prefix, timestamp1, timestamp2)
to achieve a similar result for use in tableaux. You'll still need to provide 2 date parameters, but it's substantially better than dynamically generating the FROM clause.
Hope this helps.
As of now in google bigquery this dynamic Sql [like "EXECUTE SQL" in mssqlserver] is not avilable...sulry google will look inthis i belive :)
In our app people have 1 or multiple projects. These projects have a start and an end date. People have a limited amount of available days.
Now we have a page that displays the availability of a given person on a week by week basis. It currently shows 18 weeks.
The way we currently calculate the available time for a given week is like this:
def days_available(query_date=Date.today)
days_engaged = projects.current.where("start_date < ? AND finish_date > ?", query_date, query_date).sum(:days_on_project)
available = days_total - hours_engaged
end
This means that to display the page descibed above the app will fire 18(!) queries into the database. We have pages that lists the availability of multiple people in a table. For these pages the amount of queries is quickly becomes staggering.
It is also quite slow.
How could we handle the availability retrieval in a more performant manner?
This is quite a common scenario when working with date ranges in an entity. Easy and fastest way is in SQL:
Join your events to a number generated date table (see generate days from date range) so that you have a row for each day a person or people are occupied. Once you have the data in this form it is simply a matter of grouping by the week date part of the date and counting the rows per grouping.
You can extend this to group by person for multiple person queries.
From a SQL point of view, I'd advise using a stored procedure and pass in your date/range requirement, you can then return a recordset for a user or possibly multiple users. This way your code just has to access db once.
You can then output recordset data in one go, by iterating through.
Hope this helps.
USE Stored procedure to fire your query to SQL to get data.
Pass paramerts in your case it is today's date to the SQl query.
Apply your conditions and Logic in the SQL Stored procedure , Using procedure is the goood and fastest way to retrieve data from the SQL , also it will prevent your code from the SQL injection too.
Call that SP from your Code as i dont know the Ruby on raisl I cant provide you steps about how to Call the Stored procedure from it.
After that the data fdetched as per you stored procedure will be available in Data table or something like that.
After getting the data you can perform all you need
Hope this helps
see what query is executed. further you may make comand explain to your query
explain select * from project where start_date < any_date and end_date> any_date2
you see the plan of query . Use this plan to optimized your query.
for example :
if you have index using field end_date replace a condition(end_date> any_date2 and start_date < any_date) . this step will using index if you have index on this field. But it step is db dependent . example is for nysql. if you want use index in mysql you must have using index condition on left part of where
There's not really enough information in your question to know exactly what you're trying to achieve here, e.g. the code snippet doesn't make use of the returned database query, so you could just remove it to make it faster. Perhaps this is just a bug in the code you posted?
Having said that, there are some techniques you should look into to implement your functionality.
I would take a look at using data warehouse techniques. I would think of your 'availability information' as a Fact table in a star schema, with 'Dates' and 'People' as Dimension tables.
You can then use queries to get stuff like - list of users for this projects for this week, and their availability.
Data warehousing has a whole bunch of resources you can tap into to help make this perform well, but there's also a lot of terminology that can be confusing, but for this type of 'I need to slice and dice my data across several sets of things (people and time)', Data Warehousing techniques can be quite powerful.
As I dont understand ruby on rails,from sql point of view i suggest you to write a stored procedure and return a dataset.And do the necessary table operations on the dataset from front end.It will reduce the unnecessary calls to DB.