FAQ

This page collects some tips that could be useful when creating your first queries.

Problem: A metric does not appear in results

Currency related metrics (e.g. metrics.cost_micros) need to include segments.date in the SELECT clause and in the WHERE clause.

Problem: CONTAINS operator does not work with a string field

When you need to check if a string field contains a substring, don't use the CONTAINS (or CONTAINS NOT) operator.

CONTAINS is meant to be used with fields that keep lists of values and you want to check if the list contains one or more specific values.

To check the presence of a substring you can use REGEXP_MATCH, for example

SELECT
  customer.descriptive_name,
  ... // other fields
FROM
  campaign
WHERE customer.descriptive_name REGEXEP_MATCH 'Customer.*'

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