# BigQuery Saves Your Query Results — Here's How to Find Them

Ever run a heavy BigQuery SQL query, processed gigabytes of data — and then accidentally closed the tab or forgot to save the results? 😬

**Don't re-run it. Your results are still there.**

BigQuery automatically saves query results to an anonymous temporary table for **24 hours**. You can find it under **Job Information → Temporary Table**.

This is also the engine behind BigQuery's caching behavior: if you run the exact same query again within that window — with no changes — BigQuery serves results directly from cache, **at no charge**.

**One caveat worth knowing:** if your result set exceeds **10 GB** (that's the output, not the data scanned), it won't be cached. So for very large result sets, you'll want to write results to a permanent table explicitly.

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