Which BigQuery columns are never used downstream?
Lineage shows BigQuery columns with no downstream consumers, so you can safely deprecate them and shrink your models.
Command
bruin lineageDefined in
SQL + YAML
Works with
BigQuery + Bruin CLI
What you get
Dead-column detectionemergentcolumn-level
How it works in code
$ bruin lineage ./pipeline --downstream # bigqueryRun bruin lineage and you see the full BigQuery column graph before changing anything.
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Open source. Emergent column-level lineage across SQL and Python assets.