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How to get BigQuery storage size for a single table

I want to calculate table wise cost for Google Big Query Storage, But i don't know how to view size of storage for each table individually.

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selva kumar Avatar asked Jul 07 '15 11:07

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Or from the GUI, you can use the metadata internal table __TABLES__ , for example this will give you the size in GB:

select    sum(size_bytes)/pow(10,9) as size from   <your_dataset>.__TABLES__ where    table_id = '<your_table>' 
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Quentin Avatar answered Oct 26 '22 20:10

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