Introduction to Google Cloud Spanner

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: 1 minute and 50 seconds

Students: 303

Rating: 5/5

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Google Cloud Spanner combines the power and flexibility of an SQL database, with the speed and scalability of a noSQL database. If you need both high availability and transactional consistency at a global scale, then this is the lesson for you!

Learning Objectives

Create a new Cloud Spanner instance
Create Cloud Spanner databases
Add, edit, and delete records
Install the Spanner emulator

Intended Audience

Database administrators
Cloud Architects
GCP Developers
Anyone preparing for a Google Cloud certification

Prerequisites

Some experience working with databases
Basic understanding of SQL syntax
Access to a GCP account