[mywittyname]

I used the Coursera course as well and yea, it's pretty good, so long as you do the labs.

To be fair though, BQ is the swiss army knife of GCP data engineering. I was a GCP DE consultant for many years and so much of the pipelines I put together amounted to, shove data into BQ as early as possible, then leverage SQL for transformations. Plus, most Google products have native BQ support (ads, GA, Youtube, etc), which makes it a must-have tool for a lot of companies.