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BigQuery GA for Marketplace Sharing, Change History, and ODBC Driver

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BigQuery has made several features generally available, including the discovery of commercial sharing listings on Google Cloud Marketplace and new change history functions. It also announced the general availability of its Google-developed ODBC driver and BigQuery dataset insights, which help visualize table relationships and generate cross-table queries. Additionally, the legacy `tabledata.insertAll` method is now called the Storage Write API (REST), with the former Storage Write API renamed to Storage Write API (gRPC).

Features (4)
  • BigQuery

    You can discover commercial BigQuery sharing listings on Google Cloud Marketplace with the Marketplace filter. For more information, see Subscribe to a Cloud Marketplace-integrated listing . This feature is generally available (GA).

  • BigQuery

    You can use the APPENDS and CHANGES change history functions to view the rows that were appended to or changed in a table during a given time range. This feature is generally available (GA).

  • BigQuery

    You can use the Google-developed Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver for BigQuery to connect your applications to BigQuery. This feature is generally available (GA).

  • BigQuery

    BigQuery dataset insights is generally available (GA). BigQuery dataset insights helps you discover and visualize relationships between tables and automatically generate cross-table queries. You can run and publish these insights to Knowledge Catalog for agentic grounding use cases, or generate them on demand without publishing for quick, ad hoc dataset exploration.

Enhancements (1)
  • BigQuery

    The feature formerly known as the legacy tabledata.insertAll method is now called the Storage Write API (REST) . The feature formerly known as the Storage Write API is now called the Storage Write API (gRPC) .

Read the original announcement →

https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#July_27_2026

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