updateViewQuery.js

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'use strict';

function main(
  datasetId = 'my_dataset', // Existing dataset ID
  tableId = 'my_existing_view' // Existing view ID
) {
  // [START bigquery_update_view_query]
  // Import the Google Cloud client library and create a client
  const {BigQuery} = require('@google-cloud/bigquery');
  const bigquery = new BigQuery();

  async function updateViewQuery() {
    // Updates a view named "my_existing_view" in "my_dataset".

    /**
     * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
     */
    // const datasetId = "my_existing_dataset"
    // const tableId = "my_existing_table"
    const dataset = await bigquery.dataset(datasetId);

    // This example updates a view into the USA names dataset to include state.
    const newViewQuery = `SELECT name, state 
    FROM \`bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current\`
    LIMIT 10`;

    // Retrieve existing view
    const [view] = await dataset.table(tableId).get();

    // Retrieve existing view metadata
    const [metadata] = await view.getMetadata();

    // Update view query
    metadata.view = newViewQuery;

    // Set metadata
    await view.setMetadata(metadata);

    console.log(`View ${tableId} updated.`);
  }
  // [END bigquery_update_view_query]
  updateViewQuery();
}
main(...process.argv.slice(2));