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[Feature Request]: Request to use BASIC enum when calling tables.get() in BigQuery

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#34,075 opened on Feb 26, 2025

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What would you like to happen?

When calling BigQuery's tables.get method, today, we are retrieving FULL details (which is the default). However, this is expensive and is resulting in customers hitting Quota issues. BigQuery engineering team is open to relaxing this Quota if we retrieve using "BASIC" enum.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest/v2/tables/get

https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/9a1e7bf4cd399177e5de7fe28bad741cade452a5/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery.py#L902-L903

https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/9a1e7bf4cd399177e5de7fe28bad741cade452a5/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery_tools.py#L565

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Look at the linked code in bigquery.py and bigquery tools.py. Change the `tables.get()` call to use `BASIC` view instead of the default `FULL` view.
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