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Jobs Resource

The Job resource has four main parts: job reference, which uniquely
identifies the job; configuration, which tells BigQuery what to run; statistics
that describe how the job ran; and status to tell you the current state of the
job. These components are described at a high level in Table 5.11 .

Table 5.11 Job Resource Top-level Components

Field Type Description
jobReference object Components of the job name. Unique within
the project. Immutable after the job has been
created.
configuration object JobConfiguration object indicating what
operation the job should run. For example, for
a Query job, the configuration.query
portion will be filled out with the query to run.

object JobStatus object describing current job
state and any errors that may have
accumulated on the job.

status

object JobStatistics object containing statistics
about how the job was run, such as when the
job started, when it completed, and how much
data it processed.

statistics

JobReference
The job reference contains two fields: jobId and projectId , as shown in
Table 5.12 The projectId is the project that “owns” the job. For example,
if you run a query, the project specified in the project ID is responsible for
paying for any charges incurred by the query. It doesn't matter which project
the tables being queried belong to—just the project specified in the job.

Table 5.12 Job Reference Components

Field Type Description
jobId string ID of the job, unique within the project
projectId string ID of the project that will be billed for the job