Fail over a reservation to the secondary location. The operation should be done in the current secondary location, which will be promoted to the new primary location for the reservation. Attempting to failover a reservation in the current primary location will fail with the error code google.rpc.Code.FAILED_PRECONDITION.
HTTP request
POST https://bigqueryreservation.googleapis.com/v1/{name=projects/*/locations/*/reservations/*}:failoverReservation
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