Bigquery query to find the column names of a table

Question

I need a query to find column names of a table (table metadata) in Bigquery, like the following query in SQL:

SELECT column_name,data_type,data_length,data_p         


        

Answer 1

BigQuery now supports information schema.

Suppose you have a dataset named MY_PROJECT.MY_DATASET and a table named MY_TABLE, then you can run the following query:

SELECT column_name
FROM MY_PROJECT.MY_DATASET.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE table_name = 'MY_TABLE'