BigQuery for Data Warehousing: Managed Data Analysis in the Google Cloud

© Mark Mucchetti 2020

M. MucchettiBigQuery for Data Warehousinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6186-6_1

1. Settling into BigQuery

Mark Mucchetti¹ 

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Santa Monica, CA, USA

 

To get started, we’re going to learn about Google’s cloud offering as a whole, how to set up BigQuery, and how to interact with the service. Then we’ll warm up with some basic queries to get comfortable with how everything works. After that, we’ll begin designing our data warehouse.

If you’re familiar with cloud providers and SQL syntax, you should feel free to skip ahead to the data warehousing section. If you prefer a tutorial or refresher on these topics, continue on.

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