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Permissions on BigQuery tables

Permissions on BigQuery tables - BigQuery Tutorial

From the course: Advanced BigQuery

Permissions on BigQuery tables

- Previously, we granted the BigQuery Data Viewer permissions, to a non-admin user in our project. And this was done at the level of a dataset. This viewer can take a look at the tables and its overall information and can also preview its contents. However, does the user have the ability to query the tables? When we pull up a new editor and then attempt to run a rather simple query on one of the tables in the dataset to which this user has access. Let's just say a simple select star query. When we attempt to run this you'll observe that there is an additional permission that is the ability to create jobs which this user requires. This is separate from any permission which is assigned at the BigQuery level. And in order to allow this user to execute queries we'll need to head back to the admin user and over to IAM. Beyond the browser level permission at the project level, let's edit this user and then add in a…

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