Google BigQuery Daily Imports Help

Hey,

So in BigQuery I've got a table full of data for each day:

 

app_events_20180201

app_events_20180202

 

etc. etc. what I'm trying to do is create a query in the connector that will simply run and append yesterdays data. I've been playing around with things like

 

select user_id

from app_events_DATE_FORMAT(current_date - 1, “%Y%m%d”)

or

from "app_events_"+"DATE_FORMAT(current_date - 1, “%Y%m%d”)"

 

but I can't seem to get anything to work. Has anyone else figured out a simple way to append each days data aside from going in everyday and changing the table name?

Best Answer

  • Adele
    Adele Member
    Answer ✓

    We just used regex in the query statement to find yesterdays table via the suffix and pull in all the data from it.

     

    REGEXP_CONTAINS(_TABLE_SUFFIX, r'^\d{8}$') AND PARSE_DATE("%E4Y%m%d", _TABLE_SUFFIX) BETWEEN DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 1 DAY) AND CURRENT_DATE()

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  • Is anyone able to help out with this request?

    Thanks,

  • Adele
    Adele Member
    Answer ✓

    We just used regex in the query statement to find yesterdays table via the suffix and pull in all the data from it.

     

    REGEXP_CONTAINS(_TABLE_SUFFIX, r'^\d{8}$') AND PARSE_DATE("%E4Y%m%d", _TABLE_SUFFIX) BETWEEN DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 1 DAY) AND CURRENT_DATE()