BigQuery Release: views, JSON functions, table wildcards, and more

[Danny Kitt]

Hello BigQuery users,

We've released a new version of BigQuery today.  Here are some changes you may be interested in:

• Added views.
• Added JSON functions.
• Added table wildcard functions, for a cost-effective way to query data from a specific set of tables.
• Improved JOIN support by adding CROSS JOIN and multiple JOIN functionality. For more information, see joins.
• Increased quota limits for streaming data into BigQuery.
• Added a description property for datasets, tables and fields.
• Updated the concurrent rate limit and export request quota in the quota policy.

Links above are corrected.

We've released the latest version of our command line tool as well.  If you have questions, we like fielding them on Stack Overflow, where other users can find them.

Thank you,

The BigQuery team