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load_duckdb_database_into_temp_dataset

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✅ You can call this load_duckdb_database_into_temp_dataset bigfunction directly from your Google Cloud Project (no install required).

  • This load_duckdb_database_into_temp_dataset function is deployed in bigfunctions GCP project in 39 datasets for all of the 39 BigQuery regions. You need to use the dataset in the same region as your datasets (otherwise you may have a function not found error).
  • Function is public, so it can be called by anyone. Just copy / paste examples below in your BigQuery console. It just works!
  • You may prefer to deploy the BigFunction in your own project if you want to build and manage your own catalog of functions. This is particularly useful if you want to create private functions (for example calling your internal APIs). Discover the framework

Public BigFunctions Datasets:

Region Dataset
eu bigfunctions.eu
us bigfunctions.us
europe-west1 bigfunctions.europe_west1
asia-east1 bigfunctions.asia_east1
... ...

Description

Signature

load_duckdb_database_into_temp_dataset(duckdb_file_url)

Description

Download duckdb database into a temp dataset in bigfunctions project.

Each call to this function creates a new temporary dataset which:

  • will contains the duckdb tables present in the duckdb file,
  • is accessible only to you (who calls the function) and the function. You have permission to read data, delete the tables and delete the dataset.
  • has a limited period of life. Default expiration time is set to 1h so that every table created will be automatically deleted after 1h. Empty datasets are periodically removed.
  • has a random name returned by the function

Examples

load duckdb database used in evidence examples

select bigfunctions.eu.load_duckdb_database_into_temp_dataset('https://github.com/evidence-dev/sql-prophet/raw/refs/heads/main/sources/needful_things/needful_things.duckdb')
select bigfunctions.us.load_duckdb_database_into_temp_dataset('https://github.com/evidence-dev/sql-prophet/raw/refs/heads/main/sources/needful_things/needful_things.duckdb')
select bigfunctions.europe_west1.load_duckdb_database_into_temp_dataset('https://github.com/evidence-dev/sql-prophet/raw/refs/heads/main/sources/needful_things/needful_things.duckdb')
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| destination_dataset                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| bigfunctions.temp_6bdb75ca_7f72_4f1f_b46a_6ca59f7f66ac.file_data |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+

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