diff --git a/go/ql/lib/semmle/go/frameworks/SQL.qll b/go/ql/lib/semmle/go/frameworks/SQL.qll
index a0e80fde1c9f..82f0c0043531 100644
--- a/go/ql/lib/semmle/go/frameworks/SQL.qll
+++ b/go/ql/lib/semmle/go/frameworks/SQL.qll
@@ -100,12 +100,28 @@ module SQL {
       }
     }
 
+    /** A string that might identify package `go/bigquery` */
+    string gobigquery() { result = "cloud.google.com/go/bigquery.Client" }
+
     /** A string that might identify package `go-pg/pg` or a specific version of it. */
     private string gopg() { result = package("github.com/go-pg/pg", "") }
 
     /** A string that might identify package `go-pg/pg/orm` or a specific version of it. */
     private string gopgorm() { result = package("github.com/go-pg/pg", "orm") }
 
+    /**
+     * A string argument to an api of `go/bigquery` that is directly interpreted as SQL
+     * without taking syntactic structure in account
+     */
+    class BigQueryString extends Range {
+      BigQueryString() {
+        exists(Function f |
+          f.hasQualifiedName(gobigquery(), "Query") and
+          this = f.getACall().getArgument(0)
+        )
+      }
+    }
+
     /**
      * A string argument to an API of `go-pg/pg` that is directly interpreted as SQL without
      * taking syntactic structure into account.