To improve response times and reduce costs for frequent queries aggregating a large sales history fact table, materialized views are a highly effective solution. Here's why option A is the best choice:
Materialized Views:
Materialized views store the results of a query physically and update them periodically, offering faster query responses for frequently accessed data.
They are designed to improve performance for repetitive and expensive aggregation queries by precomputing the results.
Efficiency and Cost Reduction:
By building materialized views at the day and month level, you significantly reduce the computation required for each query, leading to faster response times and lower query costs.
Materialized views also reduce the need for on-demand query execution, which can be costly when dealing with large datasets.
Minimized Maintenance:
Materialized views in BigQuery are managed automatically, with updates handled by the system, reducing the maintenance burden on your team.
Steps to Implement:
Identify Aggregation Queries:
Analyze the existing queries to identify common aggregation patterns at the day and month levels.
Create Materialized Views:
Create materialized views in BigQuery for the identified aggregation patterns. For example CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW project.dataset.sales_daily_summary AS SELECT DATE(transaction_time) AS day, SUM(amount) AS total_sales FROM project.dataset.sales GROUP BY day; CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW project.dataset.sales_monthly_summary AS SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM transaction_time) AS year, EXTRACT(MONTH FROM transaction_time) AS month, SUM(amount) AS total_sales FROM project.dataset.sales GROUP BY year, month; Query Using Materialized Views:
Update existing queries to use the materialized views instead of directly querying the base table.
Reference Links:
BigQuery Materialized Views
Optimizing Query Performance

Categorical features in linear models are typically translated into a sparse vector in which each possible value has a corresponding index or id. For example, if there are only three possible eye colors you can represent
'eye_color' as a length 3 vector: 'brown' would become [1, 0, 0], 'blue' would become [0, 1, 0] and 'green' would become [0, 0, 1]. These vectors are called "sparse" because they may be very long, with many zeros, when the set of possible values is very large (such as all English words).
[0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1] is not a sparse vector because it has two 1s in it. A sparse vector contains only a single 1.
[0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0] is not a sparse vector because it has a 5 in it. Sparse vectors only contain 0s and 1s.
Reference: https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/linear#feature_columns_and_transformations

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