Resource window of Google BigQuery

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I am new to Google BigQuery. I am now logged into bq console, but the resource window for tables and datasets is too small to navigate and is pinned into bottom left, and its not resizable, please help on how can i unpin the window to navigate it.

It looks like this.

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2 Answers

Looks like what you want is something like below

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There are many way to accomplish this. I will present two of them

  • Customize existing/available UI to fit your own specific needs using so called Bookmarklet

Bookmarklets are saved and used as normal bookmarks. As such, they are simple "one-click" tools which add functionality to the browser.

There is a wide usage of bookmarklets - one of which is to modify the appearance of a web page within the browser - which is exactly your use case.
You can create bookmarklet that will switch visibility of elements above the data navigator as in above example

  • if your needs are more sophisticated and you are looking for more perks than just hiding elements of UI - you can look into third party IDE for BigQuery

I can recommend one to check out - Goliath - the part of Potens.io Suite for BigQuery. You will find there everything you would expected from professional big data IDE tool.
It is free to use and is available on GCP Marketplace
Disclosure - I am part and lead of Potens.io Team (which is also clearly stated in my SO Profile)

Did you mean you want to unpin a project that has "Pin icon" in the screenshot?

If yes, You can unpin a project to clcik "UNPIN PROJECT" right side of bigquery console.

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You have to click project(e.g bigquery-public-data) first to meet "UNPIN PROJECT".

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