Detect the pattern
Spike + scan shape beats lecturing after the fact.
Learn · Cost
Partition filter mistakes
The #1 way exploratory queries burn warehouse budget.
The problem
Analysts learn SQL. Partition pruning is a second language. The warehouse invoices both.
The outcome
Catch unpartitioned scans early and teach the fix as a playbook, not a blame thread.
Smell
Full partition scan
Fix
WHERE on partition col
Tooling
Spike + education
What you get
Show the query owner
Jobs metadata exists for a reason.
Document the fix
One paragraph playbook > another Slack argument.
Prevent with defaults
dbt models and explores should make the right path easy.
- ✓Learn: /learn/bigquery-cost-spikes
- ✓Product: /vectordata/cost-spikes
- ✓Use case: /solutions/use-cases/partition-cost-guardrails
- ✓Calculator
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