Creating/Writing to Parititoned BigQuery table via Google Cloud Dataflow

Question

I wanted to take advantage of the new BigQuery functionality of time partitioned tables, but am unsure this is currently possible in the 1.6 version of the Dataflow SDK.

Answer 1

If you pass the table name in table_name_YYYYMMDD format, then BigQuery will treat it as a sharded table, which can simulate partition table features. Refer the documentation: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/partitioned-tables