5 BigQuery SQL performance tips for modern data scientists

SQL tuning tips and advice to help reduce BigQuery execution time and costs. Start 2021 off on the right foot!

James Green
Towards Data Science
9 min readDec 12, 2020

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BigQuery performance tips
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Google BigQuery, like other modern hyper-scale data platforms, has a different architecture to what many data professionals and data scientists are used to; it stores its data in…

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