Schedule BigQuery jobs

To schedule recurring queries in BigQuery, for example to create ELT processes, a number of methods can be used. Here are some of them.

Scheduled Queries module in BigQuery

In the BiqQuery interface, enter a query and click the Schedule query button and Create new scheduled query (you may be required to activate the BigQuery Data Transfer API).

You will be requested to enter a name, a schedule, a destination for your query results if applicable, as well as optional notification settings.

Once set up, you can manage your scheduled queries in the Scheduled queries module.

Command-line tool and cron job

You can also use the bq commande line tool (see documentation). For example, the following query can be saved in an executable file named query.sh:

bq query --nouse_legacy_sql \
'SELECT * FROM `dataset.table` LIMIT 10'

and then scheduled with a cron job:

00 03 * * * /home/me/query.sh

Cloud Functions + Cloud Scheduler

For more advanced capabilities, you can use the BigQuery API. An example of queries run through the API can be found on this project.

Once you have a script, you can wrap it in a Google Cloud Function, and set a recurring schedule with Cloud Scheduler to trigger your function via a Pub/Sub message.