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Reverse Metadata

Description Management

BigQuery supports description updates at the following levels:

  • Schema level
  • Table level

Owner Management

Owner management is not supported for BigQuery.

Tag Management

BigQuery supports tag management at the following levels:

  • Schema level
  • Table level

Custom SQL Template

BigQuery supports custom SQL templates for metadata changes. The template is interpreted using python f-strings.

Here are examples of custom SQL queries for metadata changes:

-- Update table labels
ALTER TABLE `{database}.{schema}.{table}` SET OPTIONS (labels = {tags});

The list of variables for custom SQL can be found here.

For more details about reverse metadata ingestion, visit our Reverse Metadata Documentation.