Get table properties

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	"cloud.google.com/go/bigquery"
)

// printTableInfo demonstrates fetching metadata from a table and printing some basic information
// to an io.Writer.
func printTableInfo(w io.Writer, projectID, datasetID, tableID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// datasetID := "mydataset"
	// tableID := "mytable"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := bigquery.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("bigquery.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	meta, err := client.Dataset(datasetID).Table(tableID).Metadata(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	// Print basic information about the table.
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Schema has %d top-level fields\n", len(meta.Schema))
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Description: %s\n", meta.Description)
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Rows in managed storage: %d\n", meta.NumRows)
	return nil
}

import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.Table;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableId;

public class GetTable {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "bigquery_public_data";
    String datasetName = "samples";
    String tableName = "shakespeare";
    getTable(projectId, datasetName, tableName);
  }

  public static void getTable(String projectId, String datasetName, String tableName) {
    try {
      // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
      // once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
      BigQuery bigquery = BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();

      TableId tableId = TableId.of(projectId, datasetName, tableName);
      Table table = bigquery.getTable(tableId);
      System.out.println("Table info: " + table.getDescription());
    } catch (BigQueryException e) {
      System.out.println("Table not retrieved. \n" + e.toString());
    }
  }
}

// Import the Google Cloud client library
const {BigQuery} = require('@google-cloud/bigquery');
const bigquery = new BigQuery();

async function getTable() {
  // Retrieves table named "my_table" in "my_dataset".

  /**
   * 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);
  const [table] = await dataset.table(tableId).get();

  console.log('Table:');
  console.log(table.metadata.tableReference);
}
getTable();

use Google\Cloud\BigQuery\BigQueryClient;

/** Uncomment and populate these variables in your code */
//$projectId = 'The Google project ID';
//$datasetId = 'The BigQuery dataset ID';
//$tableId   = 'The BigQuery table ID';

$bigQuery = new BigQueryClient([
    'projectId' => $projectId,
]);
$dataset = $bigQuery->dataset($datasetId);
$table = $dataset->table($tableId);

from google.cloud import bigquery

# Construct a BigQuery client object.
client = bigquery.Client()

# TODO(developer): Set table_id to the ID of the model to fetch.
# table_id = 'your-project.your_dataset.your_table'

table = client.get_table(table_id)  # Make an API request.

# View table properties
print(
    "Got table '{}.{}.{}'.".format(table.project, table.dataset_id, table.table_id)
)
print("Table schema: {}".format(table.schema))
print("Table description: {}".format(table.description))
print("Table has {} rows".format(table.num_rows))