Seth HollymanDeveloper Relations Engineer, BigQuery Editor's Note (August, 2018): When this article was originally written, DML statements such as UPDATE and DELETE would never succeed when modifying a table with an active streaming buffer. BigQuery now allows DML modifications to proceed in certain situations. Look here for more information. Understanding how BigQuery streaming inserts work mak
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