CI/CD for BigQuery Views

How I Automated What I Was Tired of Doing Manually I'm a freelance data analyst. I work with multiple clients simultaneously: building dashboards in Power BI and Tableau, writing SQL queries, and automating reports. How I Got Here One of my projects involves web analytics. The data lives in BigQuery, and I've built a layer of views on top of it for Power BI. As the project grew, I needed a way to roll back to previous versions, hand off work to clients, and be sure I was always working with the latest version. The Solution Git becomes the single source of truth. All SQL code is stored in a repository, and CI/CD automatically applies changes to BigQuery on every commit. Sounds like something only DevOps engineers do? This article will walk you through the setup process step by step. What You'll Need: • GitLab (free account is enough) • Google Cloud Console • Google Cloud project with BigQuery • About 2 hours for the initial setup What's Covered in This Article: Setting up access (GitLab