BigQuery

Incremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now generally available (GA).

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The BigQuery Data Engineering Agent is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) regional endpoint and supports the gemini-3.5-flash model.

For more information, see Where Gemini in BigQuery processes your data.

BigQuery offers TimesFM 3.0, a built-in time series forecasting model that implements Google Research's open source TimesFM model.

You can use TimesFM 3.0 with the following functions:

Conversational analytics in BigQuery now supports the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data.

This feature is in Preview.

Iceberg external tables and Iceberg managed tables now support flexible column names by default.

This feature is generally available (GA).

The gemini-embedding-2 model works well for embedding long strings, including multilingual and unstructured data.

It supports a mix of text, images, audio, video, and PDF files. You can use this model in the AI.EMBED, AI.SIMILARITY, and AI.GENERATE_EMBEDDING functions. This model is generally available.

The Data Engineering Agent now supports the gemini-3.7-flash model for the us, eu, and global multi-regional endpoints.

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The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now generally available (GA).

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An updated version of the Simba JDBC driver for BigQuery is now available.

Chatting with graphs in conversational analytics is now generally available.

You can use a combination of multiple graphs, tables, views, and UDFs as data sources.

BigQuery pipelines provides support for automated metadata enrichment and Knowledge Catalog data quality scorecard integration.

In addition, the Data Engineering Agent can proactively generate semantic metadata for your pipeline assets. For more information, see Metadata enrichment and data quality scorecard integration. These features are generally available.

You can now view the UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE, and EXPORT execution steps in your query plans.

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You can now use the OBJ.LIST function to perform spontaneous discovery and analysis of unstructured data.

The OBJ.LIST function returns a table of metadata and ObjectRef values for files stored in Cloud Storage, and does not require you to create a persistent object table.

BigQuery jobs explorer layout and filtering improvements, including status counts in the filter bar, resource grouping, and timeline metric charts, are…

BigQuery jobs explorer layout and filtering improvements, including status counts in the filter bar, resource grouping, and timeline metric charts, are generally available (GA).

The BigQuery Security center is now available in the Google Cloud console.

You can use the Security center to analyze your data security profile, create and manage row- and column-level security policies, and configure and manage data governance and policy tags. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can query the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FAILOVER_HISTORY view to retrieve a near real-time list of failover events for reservations within an administration…

You can query the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FAILOVER_HISTORY view to retrieve a near real-time list of failover events for reservations within an administration project that use managed disaster recovery.

The AI.KEY_DRIVERS function is now generally available (GA).

You can use the AI.KEY_DRIVERS function to identify segments of data that cause statistically significant changes to a summable metric.

The BigQuery Data Transfer Service MCP server is now Generally Available (GA).

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You can now write the output rows produced by BigQuery continuous queries directly into Apache Iceberg managed tables.

This lets you continuously process streaming data from BigQuery and write it into your open-format lakehouse by using an INSERT DML statement.

In the BigQuery Studio query editor, the Query results table now keeps the row numbers visible on the left as you scroll horizontally.

This helps you maintain context and track data across wide tables. This feature is generally available (GA).