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You are using Google BigQuery as your data warehouse. Your users report that the following simple query is running very slowly, no matter when they run the query:

SELECT country, state, city FROM [myproject:mydataset.mytable] GROUP BY country You check the query plan for the query and see the following output in the Read section of Stage:1:

What is the most likely cause of the delay for this query?

A.
Users are running too many concurrent queries in the system
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A.
Users are running too many concurrent queries in the system
B.
The [myproject:mydataset.mytable] table has too many partitions
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B.
The [myproject:mydataset.mytable] table has too many partitions
C.
Either the state or the city columns in the [myproject:mydataset.mytable] table have too many NULL values
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C.
Either the state or the city columns in the [myproject:mydataset.mytable] table have too many NULL values
D.
Most rows in the [myproject:mydataset.mytable] table have the same value in the country column, causing data skew
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D.
Most rows in the [myproject:mydataset.mytable] table have the same value in the country column, causing data skew
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asked 18/09/2024
Coleman Owie
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