92 updates from Google Cloud.
You can use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-parse-document">AI.PARSE_DOCUMENT function</a> to parse documents such as PDFs. This…
You can manage and version control SQL scripts and notebooks with <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/git-repositories">BigQuery Studio Git repositories</a>, which provide a…
You can now use a <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/custom-constraints">custom organization policy</a> to allow or deny specific operations on workload management resources…
You can <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reservations-tasks#prioritize_idle_slots_with_reservation_groups">group reservations</a> together to prioritize idle slot sharing within…
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-detect-anomalies">AI.DETECT_ANOMALIES function</a> supports calling the function with a single…
Support for the AI.KEY_DRIVERS function <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages">preview</a> has been temporarily disabled. We are working to restore this feature as soon…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-count-tokens">AI.COUNT_TOKENS function</a> to estimate the token count of text…
Starting June 1, 2026, due to changes in Google Ads data retention policies, the BigQuery Data Transfer Service connectors for <a…
Starting May 7, 2026, new transfer configurations that transfer data from Google Ads using the BigQuery Data Transfer Service will require <a…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/dataform/docs/strict-act-as-mode">Strict act-as mode</a> is enforced globally for all Dataform repositories, requiring the use of a custom service account or…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/vectorindex_functions#vector_indexstatistics">VECTOR_INDEX.STATISTICS function</a> to calculate how…
You can now use the PARTITION BY clause of the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/data-definition-language#create_vector_index_statement">CREATE VECTOR INDEX…
You can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-intro#cdc">create materialized views over active change data capture (CDC) enabled tables</a>. This feature is <a…
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 <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/data-engineering-agent-pipelines">use the Data Engineering Agent</a> to build, modify, and troubleshoot data pipelines in BigQuery.…
Looker Studio is now called <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/data-studio">Data Studio</a>. The website and endpoint change from lookerstudio.google.com to datastudio.google.com. You do not need…
You can now use the gemini-embedding-2-preview model in the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-embed">AI.EMBED</a>, <a…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-overview">BigQuery graphs</a> now support the following features: • You can <a…
Dataplex Universal Catalog is now called <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/introduction">Knowledge Catalog</a>. The API, client library, CLI, and Identity and Access Management…
BigLake is now called <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/biglake/docs/introduction">Google Cloud Lakehouse</a>. BigLake metastore is now called the <a…
Dataproc is now called <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/concepts/overview">Managed Service for Apache Spark</a>. The names for associated API, client library, CLI, and Identity…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-modeler">visual graph modeler</a> in BigQuery Studio to define BigQuery graph nodes and edges from your BigQuery tables…
You can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-visualization#visualization-results">visualize BigQuery graph query results and graph schemas</a> directly in BigQuery Studio,…
You can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/migration/external-metastore-lakehouse-migration">migrate metadata from external data catalogs to BigLake tables…
The following features have been added to <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/user-defined-functions-python">Python UDFs</a> during <a…
You can now publish a <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/create-data-agents#publish-agent-gemini-enterprise">BigQuery Conversational Analytics agent in Gemini Enterprise</a>. This…
You can use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/use-bigquery-mcp">BigQuery MCP server</a> to perform a range of data-related tasks with your AI applications including: •…
Starting July 25, 2026, the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/facebook-ads-transfer">BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Facebook Ads connector</a> will update the data type mapping…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/notebooks-introduction#notebook_gallery">notebook gallery</a> in the BigQuery web UI as your central hub for discovering and…
Using <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/code-asset-folders">folders</a> to organize and control access to single file code assets is <a…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-key-drivers">AI.KEY_DRIVERS function</a> to identify segments of data that cause…
You can now use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/colab-data-apps">Colab Data Apps</a> to transform your data analyses from Colab notebooks into polished, interactive…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-analytics">Conversational analytics</a> now supports querying Lakehouse tables that connect to the Apache Iceberg REST catalog or…
You can now use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/export-statements#export_to_alloydb">EXPORT DATA statements</a> to <a…
BigQuery Apache Iceberg external tables now support <a href="https://iceberg.apache.org/spec/#version-3-extended-types-and-capabilities">Iceberg version 3</a>, including binary deletion vectors. For…
BigQuery agent analytics is now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA) in the Google Agent Developer Kit. <a…
You can use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/create-notebooks#cells">visualization cells</a> to automatically <a…
Support for the AI.AGG function <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages">preview</a> has been temporarily disabled. We are working to restore this feature as soon…
The following <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/generative-ai-overview#managed_ai_functions">managed AI functions</a> use Gemini to help you filter, join, rank, and classify your…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/colab/docs/sql-cells">SQL cells</a> in BigQuery notebooks are now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages">generally…
You can now use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-overview">BigQuery Graph</a> to model your data as a graph and perform analysis on a large scale. • <a…
You can now use stateful operations in <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/continuous-queries-introduction#supported_stateful_operations">continuous queries</a>, which let you…
The BigQuery Data Transfer Service can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/migration/snowflake-transfer">transfer data from Snowflake to BigQuery</a>. This feature is <a…
The BigQuery Data Transfer Service now supports <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/sqlserver-transfer#full_or_incremental_transfers">incremental data transfers</a> when transferring…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/system-variables">@@session_id system variable</a> with SQL user-defined functions, table functions, and logical…
You can now use the built-in text embedding model embeddinggemma-300m in the <a…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-agg">AI.AGG function</a> to semantically aggregate unstructured input data based…
You can now use a <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/custom-constraints">custom organization policy</a> to allow or deny specific operations on these BigQuery resources: tables,…
You can set the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/search-index#column-granularity">column granularity</a> when you <a…
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/migration/snowflake-migration-intro">BigQuery Migration Service supports SQL translations from Snowflake SQL to GoogleSQL</a>. This feature is…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/data-definition-language#create_connection_statement">CREATE CONNECTION</a>, <a…
BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/work-with-objectref">ObjectRef values</a> now support the following: • You can run <a…
The following forecasting and anomaly detection functions and updates are <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA): • The <a…
You can now create BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-create#spanner">non-incremental materialized views over Spanner data</a> to improve query…
You can now create BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-create#spanner">non-incremental materialized views over Spanner data</a> to improve query…
The following forecasting and anomaly detection functions and updates are <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA): • The <a…
You can now use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/export-to-spanner#export_using_a_cloud_resource_connection">Cloud resource connections with EXPORT DATA statements</a> to reverse…
In BigQuery Data Transfer Service, you can <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/hdfs-data-lake-transfer#monitor-transfer-status">monitor resource-level status reporting for Hive…
You can use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/migration-assessment">BigQuery migration assessment for Snowflake</a> to assess the complexity of migrating from Snowflake to…
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/overview">Gemini for Google Cloud API</a> (cloudaicompanion.googleapis.com) is now enabled for existing BigQuery projects in the European…
You can now 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…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/datatransfer/mcp">BigQuery Data Transfer Service remote MCP server</a> to enable AI agents to create, manage, and…
The following functions are now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA): • <a…
You can now use a <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reservation-custom-constraints">custom organization policy</a> to allow or deny specific operations on routines. This feature is…
In BigQuery ML, you can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-create-remote-model-open#automatically_deployed_models">automatically…
BigQuery now lets you configure a <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/default-configuration#global-settings">global default location</a>. This setting is used if the location isn't…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/advanced-runtime">BigQuery advanced runtime</a> is now enabled as the default runtime for all projects.
You can now understand and debug BigQuery query performance with a <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/query-plan-explanation#query_text_heatmap">visual mapping of your SQL query in…
Updates to <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-analytics">conversational analytics</a> include the following improvements: • ObjectRef support: BigQuery…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/pipeline-connection-page">Pipelines & Connections page</a> to streamline your data integration tasks by using…
You can create a <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-create-remote-model-embedding-maas">remote model</a> based on the Vertex AI…
You can now use an alternate syntax when you call the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/search_functions#vector_search">VECTOR_SEARCH function</a> to improve…
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.
You can now use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/continuous-queries#spanner-example">continuous queries to stream BigQuery data to Spanner in real time</a>. This feature is <a…
Effective June 1, 2026, BigQuery will limit legacy SQL use. This depends on whether your organization or project uses it from November 1, 2025, to June 1, 2026. If you don't use legacy SQL during…
You can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/create-data-agents#create-review-glossary-terms">create and review</a> custom glossary terms in BigQuery for a…
You can now <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/restore-deleted-datasets">undelete a dataset</a> that is within your time travel window to recover it to the state that it was in…
Control of MCP use with organization policies is deprecated. After March 17, 2026, organization policies that use the gcp.managed.allowedMCPServices constraint won't work, and you can control MCP use…
You can now run <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/global-queries">global queries</a>, which let you reference data stored in more than one region in a single query. This feature…
You can now use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/generate-dataset-insights">dataset insights</a> to understand relationships between tables in a dataset by generating relationship…
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-classify">AI.CLASSIFY function</a> now supports classifying your input into multiple categories.…