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more than 24 hours old, you have to rerun the query to see the results. Each
project has an independent per-user query history, so you are seeing only
the queries run from your account under the currently active project.
Figure 3.6
Query results display
If you want to experiment with the query editor, consider using the
shakespeare
table under
publicdata:samples
. The table contains
word frequencies across a couple of works by Shakespeare. The advantage
is that it is a small table, so the cost of querying the table is negligible. The
query editor supports a couple of common convenience features:
• Syntax highlighting
• Indenting support for formatting
• Tab completion of fields and functions
• Parenthesis matching
These simple features make it a convenient tool for data exploration and
prototyping queries. If you are interested in trying variations of queries
