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Looker update on October 30, 2026 docs.cloud.google.com/looker… #googlecloud On November 1, 2026, several Canadian provinces and territories—Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, and parts of the Northwest Territories—transition to 1/4
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permanent daylight saving time (DST) or remain on their summer UTC offsets year-round. On unpatched Looker instances, these changes affect scheduled content delivery fire times and table calculations that use now() with the affected Canadian time zones ( America/Winnipeg, 2/4
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Database configuration stopgap: If your organization can't restart instances before November 1, 2026, then you can set the time zone for your database session without causing downtime for your instance 6/7
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Set the default_time_zone flag for the database session to your target fixed numeric offset (for example, '-06:00' for Alberta, '-07:00' for British Columbia, or '-05:00' for Manitoba). For more information about configuring database flags, see Configure database flags. 7/7
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ALTER DATABASE database_name SET timezone TO ' anchor_zone '; Replace the following: database_name: the name of your database. anchor_zone: the anchor zone to use as the time zone for your database. Specify an anchor zone that operates on a permanent offset 7/8
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For example, 'America/Regina' for Alberta and Northwest Territories (UTC-6), 'America/Whitehorse' for British Columbia (UTC-7), or 'America/Coral_Harbour' for Manitoba (UTC-5). 8/8
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Cloud Run update on October 30, 2026 docs.cloud.google.com/run/do… #googlecloud You can run Cloud Run jobs with GPUs enabled for up to 12 hours ( Preview ).
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BigQuery update on October 30, 2026 docs.cloud.google.com/bigque… #googlecloud You can now retrieve query results directly in the Apache Arrow format for faster retrieval speed and improved serialization efficiency 1/2
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This feature is in Preview. 2/2
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