There are several cool features in BigQuery that we can use via standard SQL syntax, often unknown to even the most frequent users. This document intends to show some of them, not being an exhaustive work.

There is no logical order for the topics to follow, just a collection of a few features/functions that I find interesting.

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• Removing Duplicate Data
• Search for a String in a Column or an Entire Table
• Returns the Last Day from a Date Expression
• Secure Through SQL
• Renaming Table
• Access Historical Data
• Scripts and Stored Procedures
• Multi-Statement Transactions
• Dynamic SQL
• Generate a Row ID Based on Column Values
• Debugging Statements
• Create External Table
• Export Data
• Create and Execute ML Models
• Analyze and Visualize Geospatial Data
• Evaluate Arithmetic Expressions

• Bigquery Documentation
• BigQuery Admin reference guide
• Top 25 Google Search terms, now in BigQuery
• BigQuery Release Notes

• Cool BigQuery Features Using Standard SQL Syntax
• Evaluate arithmetic expressions without values using BigQuery