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Google brings BigQuery to VS Code

Using the Google Cloud Code extension for VS Code to work with BigQuery datasets and notebooks

Christianlauer
CodeX
2 min readDec 17, 2024

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Google just announced that you can now use the Google Cloud Code extension for VS Code to work with BigQuery datasets and notebooks in your VS Code environment — for now in preview[1].

VS Code (Visual Studio Code) is a free source code and widely udes editor from Microsoft. Visual Studio Code is available across platforms for the Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems. Visual Studio Code is based on the Electron framework and enables syntax highlighting, code folding, debugging, auto-completion and version management, among other things[2].

The Google Cloud Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension lets you do the following in VS Code:

  • Develop and execute BigQuery notebooks.
  • Browse, inspect, and preview BigQuery datasets.

Before you start check that you have Python 3.11 or later and the Google Cloud CLI installed on your system.

Google Cloud Code on VS Code Marketplace — Screenshot by Author

From there you will find the new functionality to develop new SQL Queries and…

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