title: How to clean up BigQuery views
body: <p>I have a BigQuery project with well over a hundred views (most of our queries are done as views) many of which are obsolete, and I am embarking on a project to clean these up and also reorganize/rename views for ease of use. There are a few questions I have about BigQuery features:</p>
  
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  <li><p>Is it possible to do a mass export of the queries for all the BQ views in my project (just the queries, not the results)? This would be useful to have a backup (and also to more easily search them, which would help answer other questions)</p></li>
  <li><p>Is there a way to organize views into folders? I know that they can be organized into different datasets (which is what I'm doing now) but is there a way to create a multi-level "directory structure" to organize all the views?</p></li>
  <li><p>Is there a way to easily search for all the views whose queries use a particular other table (or view)?</p></li>
  <li><p>Is there a way to "rename a view" (or table), which may including moving it to a new dataset, such that all existing views whose queries include the renamed view (or table) are updated to use the new name?</p></li>
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