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Generating arrays

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Description

BigQuery supports the ARRAY column type - here are a few methods for generating arrays.

Literals

Arrays can contain most types, though all elements must be derived from the same supertype.

select
  [1, 2, 3] as num_array,
  ['a', 'b', 'c'] as str_array,
  [current_timestamp(), current_timestamp()] as timestamp_array,

GENERATE_* functions

Analogous to numpy.linspace().

select
  generate_array(0, 10, 2) AS even_numbers,
  generate_date_array(CAST('2020-01-01' AS DATE), CAST('2020-03-01' AS DATE), INTERVAL 1 MONTH) AS month_starts

ARRAY_AGG

Aggregate a column into a single row element.

SELECT ARRAY_AGG(num)
FROM (SELECT 1 num UNION ALL SELECT 2 num UNION ALL SELECT 3 num)