June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 44m
English
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BigQuery
BigQuery is probably the single most compelling reason to adopt the GCP right now. It is a data warehousing service that is really fast, really price-competitive, and incredibly easy to use. Unlike some other Google Cloud services, BigQuery is widely used and so has little unpredictability in its behavior. I like to joke that if you interact with a Google Cloud sales professional, no matter what your question, the answer that comes back is, just use BigQuery for that!
In this chapter, you will learn about the following:
- BigQuery as Google's fully managed petabyte scale serverless database
- Architecture of BigQuery
- Working with BigQuery using web console
- Working with BigQuery using CLI
BigQuery competes with proprietary data warehousing ...