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_21

21. Conclusion

Mark Mucchetti¹ 

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Santa Monica, CA, USA

 

Running an enterprise-grade data program is no easy feat.

BigQuery lowers the barrier to entry. For free, you can create a data warehouse that runs 24/7 without maintenance: no operating system, no patching, no running out of hard drive space. That was the promise we explored in this book. However, this warehouse also starts out completely empty and valueless. Your empty warehouse is the first blank page of a book called Data Warehousing at Your Company with BigQuery, and you must write it yourself. Much of it will be literal documentation, code, and configuration. An equal part will be ...