100 updates from Google Cloud.
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/sdk/use-gcloud-mcp#available-tools">run_bq_command tool</a> exposes the bq command-line tool within the Cloud CLI remote MCP server. AI agents can now…
Starting April 26, 2027, core graph processing for <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-overview">BigQuery Graph</a> will be restricted to the <a…
The default per-project limit of user-specific <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reservations-assignments#assignment-logic-and-criteria">reservation assignments</a> has been…
Table Explorer behavior has moved to the Reference panel. Table Explorer has been deprecated. For more information, see "Use the Reference panel" in <a…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/query-templates">Query templates</a> for data clean rooms are <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally…
You can now use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/cross-cloud-connections">cross-cloud connections</a> to query data in AWS, Azure, and Salesforce Data 360 from all BigQuery…
The JDBC driver for BigQuery now supports <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/jdbc-for-bigquery#opentelemetry">OpenTelemetry</a> for tracing and logging, which helps you monitor the…
You can audit when users download query results by using the BigQuery console. Data Access audit logs for the tabledata.list method now include a <a…
The BigQuery Data Transfer Service now supports <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/klaviyo-transfer-intro#full_or_incremental_transfers">incremental data transfers</a> when…
BigQuery dataset insights is <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA). <a…
You can use the Google-developed <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/odbc-for-bigquery">Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver for BigQuery</a> to connect your applications to…
You can use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/change-history">APPENDS and CHANGES change history functions</a> to view the rows that were appended to or changed in a table…
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.
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/lakehouse/docs/introduction">Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg</a>: Data Products with special characters, such as "/" or "-", are not supported and will not…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/lakehouse/docs/introduction">Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg</a>: Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in…
BigQuery supports <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/tags#data-governance-tags">data governance tags</a>, which let you enforce column-level security and data masking. Data…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-analytics#bigquery-ml-support">Conversational analytics</a> now supports the <a…
As part of <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/gemini-security-privacy-compliance">Gemini in BigQuery</a>, <a…
Table partitioning, multi-statement transactions, and advanced runtime are now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA) for <a…
The BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/bigquery-web-ui#open-overview">Overview page</a> is a hub for discovering tutorials, features, and resources to help you get the most…
A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in repositories in BigQuery, Dataform, and Colab Enterprise. An authenticated attacker could potentially escalate permissions and perform…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/data-definition-language#alter_search_index_statement">ALTER SEARCH INDEX DDL statement</a> to <a…
Incremental data transfers for the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/salesforce-transfer">BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Salesforce</a> are now <a…
You can 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 SQL…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reservations-workload-management#scheduling-policies">Project caps (also known as scheduling policies)</a> let you limit maximum slots and…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/data-cloud-extension">The Data Agent Kit extension</a> is an extension for agent coding tools, such as VS Code, Antigravity, and Cursor, that lets you interact…
You can now perform <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/aggregate-function-calls#multi_level_aggregation">multi-level aggregation</a> in GoogleSQL, which lets…
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.
For <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/facebook-ads-transfer">data transfers from Facebook Ads</a>, support for the AdInsightsMMM report has been temporarily disabled. Existing data…
You can now use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/search_functions#vector_search">VECTOR_SEARCH function</a> to combine a semantic search with a lexical…
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.
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-analytics">Conversational analytics</a> in BigQuery is now <a…
You can enable <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/autonomous-embedding-generation">autonomous embedding generation</a> on new or existing tables that you make with the <a…
Table Explorer behavior is moving to the Reference panel. This transition will occur in July 2026 or later. For more information, see <a…
Support for configuring daily token quotas for BigQuery generative AI functions has been temporarily disabled. We are working to restore this feature as soon as possible.
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/generative-ai-overview">BigQuery AI functions</a> can use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/work-with-objectref">ObjectRef…
Support for the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-key-drivers">AI.KEY_DRIVERS function</a> is restored. You can use the AI.KEY_DRIVERS…
You can <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/use-cloud-assist#administer_bigquery">monitor performance, analyze capacity, and optimize costs with Gemini Cloud Assist in…
BigQuery continuous queries now support the following aggregation functions: • <a…
You can <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/use-cloud-assist#analyze-lineage">analyze data lineage with Gemini Cloud Assist in BigQuery</a>. This feature is in <a…
You can now use Gemini Cloud Assist to <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/use-cloud-assist#schedule_a_query">schedule queries</a>. This feature is in <a…
You can use the Google-developed, open source <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/jdbc-for-bigquery">Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver for BigQuery</a> to connect your Java…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/control-access-to-resources-iam#deny_access_to_a_resource">IAM deny policies</a> for BigQuery are now <a…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/slots#slot-autoscaling">BigQuery fluid scaling</a>, which provides per-second billing with no minimum duration for autoscaling reservations, is <a…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/remote-functions#create_a_remote_function">Remote functions</a> now support a custom path in the endpoint URL. You can reuse a single Cloud…
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.
The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/colab-data-science-agent">Data Science Agent</a> (DSA) for Colab Enterprise and BigQuery is now <a…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/user-defined-functions-python">Python UDFs</a> are now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages">Generally…
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 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…
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…
<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 <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.
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 <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…
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…
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…
<a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/graph-overview">BigQuery graphs</a> now support the following features: • You can <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 <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.…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/migration/external-metastore-lakehouse-migration">migrate metadata from external data catalogs to BigLake tables…
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: •…
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…
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…