3.1. Identifiers

Here is a summary of rules for identifiers:

Table 1. BigQuery Identifiers

IdentifierLengthMatching Regular Expression
projectId6-30^[a-z][-a-z0-9]{4,28}[a-z0-9]$
datasetId1-1024^[a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,1024}$
tableId1-1024^[a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,1024}$
field name1-128^[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,127}$


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