How to get this sql code to work in google big query?

Question

This code is taken from lucidchart and would like to run it in gbq to get the dataset information.

SELECT 'mysql' dbms,t.TABLE_SCHEMA,t.TABLE_NAME,c.COLUMN_NAME,c.ORDINAL_POSITION,c.DATA_TYPE,c.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH,n.CONSTRAINT_TYPE,k.REFERENCED_TABLE_SCHEMA,k.REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME,k.REFERENCED_COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES t LEFT JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS c ON t.TABLE_SCHEMA=c.TABLE_SCHEMA AND t.TABLE_NAME=c.TABLE_NAME LEFT JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE k ON c.TABLE_SCHEMA=k.TABLE_SCHEMA AND c.TABLE_NAME=k.TABLE_NAME AND c.COLUMN_NAME=k.COLUMN_NAME LEFT JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS n ON k.CONSTRAINT_SCHEMA=n.CONSTRAINT_SCHEMA AND k.CONSTRAINT_NAME=n.CONSTRAINT_NAME AND k.TABLE_SCHEMA=n.TABLE_SCHEMA AND k.TABLE_NAME=n.TABLE_NAME WHERE t.TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE' AND t.TABLE_SCHEMA NOT IN('INFORMATION_SCHEMA','mysql','performance_schema');

The error message is: Table name "INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS" missing dataset while no default dataset is set in the request.

Answer 1

The correct way to query this is to add the prefix the dataset to the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS view. Documentation

Example from doc

SELECT
 * EXCEPT(is_generated, generation_expression, is_stored, is_updatable)
FROM
 `bigquery-public-data`.census_bureau_usa.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE
 table_name="population_by_zip_2010"