diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQuery.java b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQuery.java
index 47a30cfd32aa..b020b8f01e26 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQuery.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQuery.java
@@ -1014,15 +1014,42 @@ Page<List<FieldValue>> listTableData(String datasetId, String tableId,
    *     WriteChannelConfiguration.newBuilder(tableId)
    *         .setFormatOptions(FormatOptions.csv())
    *         .build();
-   * BaseWriteChannel<BigQueryOptions, WriteChannelConfiguration> writer =
-   *     bigquery.writer(writeChannelConfiguration);
+   * TableDataWriteChannel writer = bigquery.writer(writeChannelConfiguration);
+   *   // Write data to writer
+   *  try {
+   *     writer.write(ByteBuffer.wrap(csvData.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8)));
+   *   } finally {
+   *     writer.close();
+   *   }
+   *   // Get load job
+   *   Job job = writer.getJob();
+   *   job = job.waitFor();
+   *   LoadStatistics stats = job.getStatistics();
+   *   return stats.getOutputRows();
+   * }</pre>
+   *
+   * <p>Example of writing a local file to a table.
+   * <pre> {@code
+   * String datasetName = "my_dataset_name";
+   * String tableName = "my_table_name";
+   * ReadableByteChannel csvReader = Files.newByteChannel(FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(".", "my-data.csv"));
+   * TableId tableId = TableId.of(datasetName, tableName);
+   * WriteChannelConfiguration writeChannelConfiguration =
+   *     WriteChannelConfiguration.newBuilder(tableId)
+   *         .setFormatOptions(FormatOptions.csv())
+   *         .build();
+   * TableDataWriteChannel writer = bigquery.writer(writeChannelConfiguration);
    * // Write data to writer
    * try {
-   *   writer.write(ByteBuffer.wrap(csvData.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8)));
-   * } catch (IOException e) {
-   *   // Unable to write data
+   *   ByteStreams.copy(csvReader, writer);
+   * } finally {
+   *   writer.close();
    * }
-   * writer.close();
+   * // Get load job
+   * Job job = writer.getJob();
+   * job = job.waitFor();
+   * LoadStatistics stats = job.getStatistics();
+   * return stats.getOutputRows();
    * }</pre>
    *
    * @throws BigQueryException upon failure
diff --git a/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/BigQuerySnippets.java b/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/BigQuerySnippets.java
index 85d556861a51..66eea5db2547 100644
--- a/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/BigQuerySnippets.java
+++ b/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/BigQuerySnippets.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.JobConfiguration;
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.JobId;
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.JobInfo;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.JobStatistics.LoadStatistics;
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.QueryJobConfiguration;
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.QueryRequest;
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.QueryResponse;
@@ -56,14 +57,17 @@
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableId;
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableInfo;
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.WriteChannelConfiguration;
+import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
 
 /**
  * This class contains a number of snippets for the {@link BigQuery} interface.
@@ -331,10 +335,40 @@ public Table getTableFromId(String projectId, String datasetName, String tableNa
   // [VARIABLE "my_dataset_name"]
   // [VARIABLE "my_table_name"]
   // [VARIABLE "StringValue1\nStringValue2\n"]
-  public TableDataWriteChannel writeToTable(String datasetName, String tableName, String csvData)
-      throws IOException {
+  public long writeToTable(String datasetName, String tableName, String csvData)
+      throws IOException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
     // [START writeToTable]
     TableId tableId = TableId.of(datasetName, tableName);
+    WriteChannelConfiguration writeChannelConfiguration =
+        WriteChannelConfiguration.newBuilder(tableId)
+            .setFormatOptions(FormatOptions.csv())
+            .build();
+    TableDataWriteChannel writer = bigquery.writer(writeChannelConfiguration);
+      // Write data to writer
+     try {
+        writer.write(ByteBuffer.wrap(csvData.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8)));
+      } finally {
+        writer.close();
+      }
+      // Get load job
+      Job job = writer.getJob();
+      job = job.waitFor();
+      LoadStatistics stats = job.getStatistics();
+      return stats.getOutputRows();
+      // [END writeToTable]
+    }
+
+  /**
+   * Example of writing a local file to a table.
+   */
+  // [TARGET writer(WriteChannelConfiguration)]
+  // [VARIABLE "my_dataset_name"]
+  // [VARIABLE "my_table_name"]
+  // [VARIABLE Files.newByteChannel(FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(".", "my-data.csv"))]
+  public long writeFileToTable(String datasetName, String tableName, ReadableByteChannel csvReader)
+      throws IOException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
+    // [START writeFileToTable]
+    TableId tableId = TableId.of(datasetName, tableName);
     WriteChannelConfiguration writeChannelConfiguration =
         WriteChannelConfiguration.newBuilder(tableId)
             .setFormatOptions(FormatOptions.csv())
@@ -342,15 +376,16 @@ public TableDataWriteChannel writeToTable(String datasetName, String tableName,
     TableDataWriteChannel writer = bigquery.writer(writeChannelConfiguration);
     // Write data to writer
     try {
-      writer.write(ByteBuffer.wrap(csvData.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8)));
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      // Unable to write data
+      ByteStreams.copy(csvReader, writer);
+    } finally {
+      writer.close();
     }
-    writer.close();
     // Get load job
     Job job = writer.getJob();
-    // [END writeToTable]
-    return writer;
+    job = job.waitFor();
+    LoadStatistics stats = job.getStatistics();
+    return stats.getOutputRows();
+    // [END writeFileToTable]
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/google-cloud-examples/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/ITBigQuerySnippets.java b/google-cloud-examples/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/ITBigQuerySnippets.java
index 38eaab709f04..03ce3831a018 100644
--- a/google-cloud-examples/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/ITBigQuerySnippets.java
+++ b/google-cloud-examples/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/ITBigQuerySnippets.java
@@ -53,7 +53,11 @@
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.Timeout;
 
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.channels.Channels;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -177,13 +181,19 @@ public void testWriteAndListTableData()
     String tableName = "test_write_and_list_table_data";
     String fieldName = "string_field";
     assertNotNull(bigquerySnippets.createTable(DATASET, tableName, fieldName));
-    TableDataWriteChannel channel =
+    long outputRows =
         bigquerySnippets.writeToTable(DATASET, tableName, "StringValue1\nStringValue2\n");
-    channel.getJob().waitFor();
+    assertEquals(2L, outputRows);
+    InputStream stream =
+        new ByteArrayInputStream("StringValue3\nStringValue4\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+    outputRows = bigquerySnippets.writeFileToTable(DATASET, tableName, Channels.newChannel(stream));
+    assertEquals(2L, outputRows);
     Page<List<FieldValue>> listPage = bigquerySnippets.listTableData(DATASET, tableName);
     Iterator<List<FieldValue>> rowIterator = listPage.getValues().iterator();
     assertEquals("StringValue1", rowIterator.next().get(0).getStringValue());
     assertEquals("StringValue2", rowIterator.next().get(0).getStringValue());
+    assertEquals("StringValue3", rowIterator.next().get(0).getStringValue());
+    assertEquals("StringValue4", rowIterator.next().get(0).getStringValue());
     assertTrue(bigquerySnippets.deleteTable(DATASET, tableName));
   }