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September 17, 2026
You can add unit tests to pipelines to validate your SQL transformation logic against mock datasets. Unit tests for pipelines are generally available (GA).
September 16, 2026
You can use the migration lineage service to visualize the data flow and connections in your source database and help you plan a BigQuery data warehouse migration. This feature is in Preview.
September 14, 2026
An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available.
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog. This feature is available in preview.
You can now include a WHERE clause inside of an
aggregate function call
to filter your aggregate function input using a boolean expression.
This feature is in
Preview.
September 10, 2026
Conversational analytics in BigQuery now supports the ML.CORRELATION
function to calculate statistical correlations between a target column and one
or more metric columns in a table. This feature is in Preview.
You can now use the ML.METRICS function
to compute evaluation metrics for machine learning
classification or regression tasks on any table or query that contains actual
and predicted values. This function lets you evaluate predictions without
needing to create or reference a stored model. This feature is in
Preview.
You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT
function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data.
This feature is in Preview.