Python Client for Google BigQuery
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Querying massive datasets can be time consuming and expensive without the
right hardware and infrastructure. Google `BigQuery`_ solves this problem by
enabling super-fast, SQL queries against append-mostly tables, using the
processing power of Google's infrastructure.

-  `Client Library Documentation`_
-  `Product Documentation`_

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.. _BigQuery: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/what-is-bigquery
.. _Client Library Documentation: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/latest/bigquery/index.html
.. _Product Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/v2/

Quick Start
-----------

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. `Select or create a Cloud Platform project.`_
2. `Enable billing for your project.`_
3. `Enable the Google Cloud BigQuery API.`_
4. `Setup Authentication.`_

.. _Select or create a Cloud Platform project.: https://console.cloud.google.com/project
.. _Enable billing for your project.: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/modify-project#enable_billing_for_a_project
.. _Enable the Google Cloud BigQuery API.:  https://cloud.google.com/bigquery
.. _Setup Authentication.: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/latest/core/auth.html

Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~

Install this library in a `virtualenv`_ using pip. `virtualenv`_ is a tool to
create isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one of
dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

With `virtualenv`_, it's possible to install this library without needing system
install permissions, and without clashing with the installed system
dependencies.

.. _`virtualenv`: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/


Mac/Linux
^^^^^^^^^

.. code-block:: console

    pip install virtualenv
    virtualenv <your-env>
    source <your-env>/bin/activate
    <your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-bigquery


Windows
^^^^^^^

.. code-block:: console

    pip install virtualenv
    virtualenv <your-env>
    <your-env>\Scripts\activate
    <your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-bigquery

Example Usage
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Perform a query
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.. code:: python

    from google.cloud import bigquery

    client = bigquery.Client()

    # Perform a query.
    QUERY = (
        'SELECT name FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013` '
        'WHERE state = "TX" '
        'LIMIT 100')
    query_job = client.query(QUERY)  # API request
    rows = query_job.result()  # Waits for query to finish

    for row in rows:
        print(row.name)
