diff --git a/bigquery_magics/bigquery.py b/bigquery_magics/bigquery.py
index a10de40..28f9e60 100644
--- a/bigquery_magics/bigquery.py
+++ b/bigquery_magics/bigquery.py
@@ -648,7 +648,10 @@ def _get_graph_name(query_text: str):
     """
     match = re.match(r"\s*GRAPH\s+(\S+)\.(\S+)", query_text, re.IGNORECASE)
     if match:
-        return (match.group(1), match.group(2))
+        (dataset_id, graph_id) = (match.group(1)), match.group(2)
+        if "`" in dataset_id or "`" in graph_id:
+            return None  # Backticks in graph name not support for schema view
+        return (dataset_id, graph_id)
     return None
 
 
@@ -668,10 +671,15 @@ def _get_graph_schema(
     job_config = bigquery.QueryJobConfig(
         query_parameters=[bigquery.ScalarQueryParameter("graph_id", "STRING", graph_id)]
     )
-    info_schema_results = bq_client.query(
-        info_schema_query, job_config=job_config
-    ).to_dataframe()
-
+    job_config.use_legacy_sql = False
+    try:
+        info_schema_results = bq_client.query(
+            info_schema_query, job_config=job_config
+        ).to_dataframe()
+    except Exception:
+        # If the INFORMATION_SCHEMA query fails for some reason, disable only schema
+        # view, not the entire visualizer.
+        return None
     if info_schema_results.shape == (1, 1):
         return graph_server._convert_schema(info_schema_results.iloc[0, 0])
     return None
@@ -733,7 +741,7 @@ def _add_graph_widget(
                 "<big><b>Error:</b> The query result is too large for graph visualization.</big>"
             )
         )
-        return
+        return False
 
     schema = _get_graph_schema(bq_client, query_text, query_job)
 
@@ -764,6 +772,7 @@ def _add_graph_widget(
         '"bigquery.graph_visualization.NodeExpansion"',
     )
     IPython.display.display(IPython.core.display.HTML(html_content))
+    return True
 
 
 def _is_valid_json(s: str):
@@ -870,7 +879,12 @@ def _make_bq_query(
         result = result.to_dataframe(**dataframe_kwargs)
 
     if args.graph and _supports_graph_widget(result):
-        _add_graph_widget(bq_client, result, query, query_job, args)
+        if _add_graph_widget(bq_client, result, query, query_job, args):
+            # Invoke _handle_result() in case the result is saved to a variable,
+            # but return None to suppress the default table view, which is redundant
+            # with the table view in the graph visualizer.
+            _handle_result(result, args)
+            return None
     return _handle_result(result, args)
 
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/bigquery/test_bigquery.py b/tests/unit/bigquery/test_bigquery.py
index d101616..efb2c2f 100644
--- a/tests/unit/bigquery/test_bigquery.py
+++ b/tests/unit/bigquery/test_bigquery.py
@@ -241,6 +241,23 @@ def test__run_query_dry_run_without_errors_is_silent():
     assert len(captured.stdout) == 0
 
 
+def test__get_graph_name():
+    assert magics._get_graph_name("GRAPH foo.bar") == ("foo", "bar")
+    assert magics._get_graph_name("GRAPH `foo.bar`") is None
+    assert magics._get_graph_name("GRAPH `foo`.bar") is None
+    assert magics._get_graph_name("SELECT 1") is None
+
+
+def test__get_graph_schema_exception():
+    bq_client = mock.create_autospec(bigquery.Client, instance=True)
+    bq_client.query.side_effect = Exception("error")
+    query_text = "GRAPH foo.bar"
+    query_job = mock.Mock()
+    query_job.configuration.destination.project = "my-project"
+
+    assert magics._get_graph_schema(bq_client, query_text, query_job) is None
+
+
 @pytest.mark.skipif(
     bigquery_storage is None, reason="Requires `google-cloud-bigquery-storage`"
 )
@@ -614,9 +631,7 @@ def test_bigquery_graph_json_json_result(monkeypatch):
         display_mock.assert_called()
 
     assert bqstorage_mock.called  # BQ storage client was used
-    assert isinstance(return_value, pandas.DataFrame)
-    assert len(return_value) == len(result)  # verify row count
-    assert list(return_value) == list(result)  # verify column names
+    assert return_value is None
 
 
 @pytest.mark.skipif(
@@ -735,9 +750,7 @@ def test_bigquery_graph_json_result(monkeypatch):
         assert '\\"location\\": null' in html_content
 
     assert bqstorage_mock.called  # BQ storage client was used
-    assert isinstance(return_value, pandas.DataFrame)
-    assert len(return_value) == len(result)  # verify row count
-    assert list(return_value) == list(result)  # verify column names
+    assert return_value is None
 
 
 @pytest.mark.skipif(
@@ -1015,9 +1028,7 @@ def test_bigquery_graph_colab(monkeypatch):
         assert sys.modules["google.colab"].output.register_callback.called
 
     assert bqstorage_mock.called  # BQ storage client was used
-    assert isinstance(return_value, pandas.DataFrame)
-    assert len(return_value) == len(result)  # verify row count
-    assert list(return_value) == list(result)  # verify column names
+    assert return_value is None
 
 
 @pytest.mark.skipif(