Running a Query

BigQuery is Google’s managed data warehouse in the cloud. BigQuery is incredibly fast. It can scan billions of rows in seconds. It’s also surprisingly inexpensive and easy to use. Querying terabytes of data costs only pennies, and you only pay for what you use since there are no up-front costs.

This is a hands-on lesson where you can follow along with the demos using your own Google Cloud account or a trial account. You do not need any prior knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, and the only prerequisite is having some experience with databases.

Learning Objectives

• Load data into BigQuery using files
• Run a query using standard SQL and save your results to a table
• Export data from BigQuery using Google Cloud Storage

Intended Audience

• Anyone who is interested in analyzing data on Google Cloud Platform

Prerequisites

• Experience with databases
• Familiarity with writing queries using SQL is recommended

Resources

• The GitHub repository for this lesson is at https://github.com/cloudacademy/bigquery-intro