Solved: Using Flex slots - Page 2

kk2die4 · 07-05-2022 12:37 AM

Hello

I have a query that breaks with a "billing tier exceeded" error in BigQuery. It processes a very small amount of data, but is very computationally intensive.

I am currently on an on-demand pricing rate. If I were to buy say 2000 slots :

1. Will my query use all the 2000(on demand) + 2000 (flex) whilst running or just the 2000 ?

2. If I were to use the flex slots, will the CPU minutes cap go away ?

Thank you.

nwipfli

Hello,

The error states the following:

"Please consider moving this workload to the flat-rate reservation pricing model, which does not have this limit"

Flat-rate includes the following options (see here) :

Monthly flat-rate
Annual flat-rate
Flex slots

Therefore, flex slots are not affected by this limit.

Regards
Nicolas

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