Reference documentation and code samples for the BigQuery API class Google::Cloud::Bigquery::QueryJob::Step.
Represents an operation in a stage in the execution plan for the
query.
Inherits
Object
Example
require"google/cloud/bigquery"bigquery=Google::Cloud::Bigquery.newsql="SELECT word FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.shakespeare`"job=bigquery.query_jobsqljob.wait_until_done!stages=job.query_planstages.eachdo|stage|putsstage.namestage.steps.eachdo|step|putsstep.kindputsstep.substeps.inspectendend
Methods
#kind
defkind()->String
Machine-readable operation type. For a full
list of operation types, see Steps
metadata.
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