This is technically fine. It does ensure the view stays up to date with any changes. But it does create noise in the query log in BigQuery. https://github.com/clingen-data-model/clinvar-ingest/blob/1e5b5a0e4d2d7fb893f2248c93b4210ce1ee63e0/clinvar_ingest/cloud/bigquery/processing_history.py#L80