tableExists.js

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'use strict';

function main(datasetId = 'my_dataset', tableId = 'my_table') {
  // [START bigquery_table_exists]
  // Import the Google Cloud client library
  const {BigQuery} = require('@google-cloud/bigquery');
  const bigquery = new BigQuery();

  async function tableExists() {
    // Checks whether table named "my_table" in "my_dataset" exists.

    /**
     * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample
     */
    // const datasetId = "my_dataset";
    // const tableId = "my_table";

    // Retrieve table reference
    const dataset = bigquery.dataset(datasetId);

    try {
      await dataset.table(tableId).get();
      console.log(`Table ${tableId} exists.`);
    } catch (e) {
      console.log(e.message);
    }
  }
  tableExists();
  // [END bigquery_table_exists]
}
main(...process.argv.slice(2));