从select语句中获取大型查询表模式

时间:2017-07-26 20:45:03

标签: google-bigquery

我意识到在Google大查询中有数百万种方法可以从dataset.table中获取架构....

有没有办法通过select语句获取架构数据?比如查询SQL服务器INFORMATION_SCHEMA表?

感谢。

2 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:6)

  

我需要执行数据分析,我唯一拥有的工具是webui上的QUERY函数。我想创建一个计算空值,非空值,字符串长度等每列

的查询

以下是为您提供探索和提升您需求的潜在方向/想法 它对于简单的模式来说效果相对较好 - 看起来需要针对具有记录和重复的模式进行调整 另外,请注意它跳过表中所有行中为NULL的列 - 因此下面的方法不会显示这些列

因此,将fh-bigquery.reddit.subreddits作为一个简单的测试表:

   
#standardSQL
WITH `table` AS (
  SELECT * FROM `fh-bigquery.reddit.subreddits`
),
table_as_json AS (
  SELECT  REGEXP_REPLACE(TO_JSON_STRING(t), r'^{|}$', '') AS row
  FROM `table` AS t
),
pairs AS (
  SELECT 
    REPLACE(column_name, '"', '') AS column_name, 
    IF(SAFE_CAST(column_value AS STRING)='null',NULL,column_value) AS column_value
  FROM table_as_json, UNNEST(SPLIT(row, ',"')) AS z, 
  UNNEST([SPLIT(z, ':')[SAFE_OFFSET(0)]]) AS column_name,
  UNNEST([SPLIT(z, ':')[SAFE_OFFSET(1)]]) AS column_value
)
SELECT 
  column_name,
  COUNT(DISTINCT column_value) AS _distinct_values,
  COUNTIF(column_value IS NULL) AS _nulls,
  COUNTIF(column_value IS NOT NULL) AS _non_nulls,
  MIN(LENGTH(SAFE_CAST(column_value AS STRING))) AS _min_length,
  MAX(LENGTH(SAFE_CAST(column_value AS STRING))) AS _max_length,
  ROUND(AVG(LENGTH(SAFE_CAST(column_value AS STRING)))) AS _avr_length
FROM pairs 
WHERE column_name <> ''
GROUP BY column_name
ORDER BY column_name

结果是

column_name   _nulls    _non_nulls  _min_length _max_length _avr_length  
-----------   ------  ----------  ----------- ----------- -----------
c_posts       0       2499          1            4             4.0   
created_utc   0       2499         14           14            14.0   
downs         0       2499          1            8             5.0   
num_comments  0       2499          1            7             5.0   
score         0       2499          1            7             5.0   
subr          0       2499          4           23            12.0   
ups           0       2499          1            8             5.0   

我认为它非常接近所谓的剖析(并且在可用范围内) 您可以轻松添加任何列指标等。

我真的认为 - 这可能是你的好起点

答案 1 :(得分:1)

如果目标是计算每列的空值和非空值之类的信息,那么米哈伊尔的答案仍然有意义。不过,为了回答最初的问题,BigQuery提供了对INFORMATION_SCHEMA views的支持,在撰写本文时,它处于测试阶段。如果要获取表的架构,则可以查询COLUMNS view,例如:

SELECT column_name, data_type
FROM `fh-bigquery`.reddit.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE table_name = 'subreddits'
ORDER BY ordinal_position

这将返回:

Row column_name     data_type   
1   subr            STRING
2   created_utc     TIMESTAMP
3   score           INT64
4   num_comments    INT64
5   c_posts         INT64
6   ups             INT64
7   downs           INT64