How can I change the project in BigQuery

We were also facing the same issue, and tried the setting --project_id param and default project using gcloud config set project command, but no luck.

Then we created the .bigqueryrc file and passed the path via --bigqueryrc flag, it worked.

content of the .bigqueryrc file

--project_id=gcp_project_id

Example:

bq --bigqueryrc=/path_to_file/.bigqueryrc ls -j 

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/bq-command-line-tool#setting_default_values_for_command-line_flags

You have two ways to do it:

• Specify --project_id global flag in bq. Example: bq ls -j --project_id <PROJECT>
• Change default project by issuing gcloud config set project <PROJECT>

The default project that bq respected for me was stored in $HOME/.config/gcloud/configurations/config_default (Linux)