Avoiding select * in BigQuery

A quick workaround to avoid people doing "SELECT *" on your tables (which I consider harmful, see stackoverflow ) in BigQuery is the following: Create a policy tag in the policy tags page . I create it under a new taxonomy "sql_rules", and call it "no_select_star" Once created, in the policy tag taxonomy page I enable the "enforce access control" option. If you need users to bypass this policy…