The AI.CHUNK_DOCUMENT function is a table-valued function that splits unstructured documents into semantically coherent text chunks optimized for vector…

Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now available in the following locations:

northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal)

You can export a conversational analytics agent's answer, including text, visualizations, tables, and citations, to a PDF or CSV file.

This feature is generally available (GA).

You can copy tables across regions.

This feature is now generally available (GA).

You can now use column aliases in GoogleSQL.

This feature lets you define an alias for an expression in the SELECT clause of a SQL query and immediately reference that alias within the same SELECT list or in the WHERE clause of the same query block.

The Apache Hive catalog endpoint in the Lakehouse runtime catalog is now generally available (GA).

This integration lets you use the metastore as a serverless, central metadata layer, enabling seamless data sharing and unified querying across Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and BigQuery.