December 2017
Beginner to intermediate
264 pages
5h 38m
English
Content preview from Learning Google BigQuery
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Accessing Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery can be accessed via browser, command line, Google Cloud SDK, and BigQuery API.
Google has REST APIs for almost all of the services offered on Google Cloud. These APIs are technology neutral and can be consumed by programming languages that support REST API calls or HTTPS requests. These REST APIs use the OAuth 2.0 protocol for the authentication mechanism and authorization to use specified services in specified modes. To authenticate and access Google Cloud services via OAuth, an application needs to implement the following methods:
- Download the OAuth credentials for Google Cloud from the cloud console, using it in the application to authenticate.
- Get the access token by specifying the services to ...