Stay Fresh: Four Ways to Track Update Times for BigQuery Tables and Views

Ever experienced a delayed dashboard? Been frustrated by late data for that critical report? That's the sting of stale data. As a data or analytics engineer, you know how crucial it is to have timely, up-to-date data at your fingertips.

In this post, we'll explore several ways to determine the "freshness" of your tables and views in Google BigQuery. We'll dive into both relevant SQL queries and metadata via Information Schema to give you multiple tools to keep your data …

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