diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquery/clirr-ignored-differences.xml b/google-cloud-bigquery/clirr-ignored-differences.xml
index 9c69fd6a6..e55ea7ea5 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquery/clirr-ignored-differences.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquery/clirr-ignored-differences.xml
@@ -129,4 +129,9 @@
     <className>com/google/cloud/bigquery/StandardTableDefinition*</className>
     <method>*BigLakeConfiguration(*)</method>
   </difference>
-  </differences>
\ No newline at end of file
+  <difference>
+    <differenceType>7005</differenceType>
+    <className>com/google/cloud/bigquery/TableResult*</className>
+    <method>*setTotalRows(*)</method>
+  </difference>
+  </differences>
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/TableResult.java b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/TableResult.java
index 1b4b0e101..b60c8be5a 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/TableResult.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/TableResult.java
@@ -39,7 +39,18 @@ public abstract static class Builder {
      * Sets the total number of rows in the complete result set, which can be more than the number
      * of rows in the first page of results returned by {@link #getValues()}.
      */
-    public abstract TableResult.Builder setTotalRows(Long totalRows);
+    public abstract TableResult.Builder setTotalRows(long totalRows);
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the total number of rows in the complete result set, which can be more than the number
+     * of rows in the first page of results returned by {@link #getValues()}.
+     *
+     * @deprecated use {@link setTotalRows(long)} instead.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public TableResult.Builder setTotalRows(Long totalRows) {
+      return setTotalRows((long) totalRows);
+    }
 
     public abstract TableResult.Builder setJobId(JobId jobId);