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I’ve recently been working with Java via the Google Cloud Dataflow SDK. One problem I’ve had is working with the BigQuery Java Client. It was never entirely clear how to create a repeated record. This article explains how it works and how you can accomplish the same thing. First, you need to create a new TableRow. For this example, let’s assume we are logging events using a guid and a timestamp. ...

I haven’t been able to find great documentation on creating a BigQuery TableSchema using the Java Client Library. This blog post hopes to rectify that :). You can use the BigQuery sample code for an idea of how to create a client connection to BigQuery. Assuming you have the connection set up you can start by creating a new TableSchema. The TableSchema provides a method for setting the list of fields that make up the columns of your BigQuery Table. Those columns are defined as an Array of TableFieldSchema objects. ...