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Structure and Analyze Data with Google BigQuery

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: Up to 45 minutes

Students: 3,587

Rating: 4.5/5

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Description

Google BigQuery is a serverless, highly scalable and fully managed database service that allows you to handle and query a big amount of data in a very short time. BigQuery is designed to make data analysts more productive with unmatched price-performance. Because there is no infrastructure to manage, you can focus on uncovering meaningful insights using familiar SQL without the need for a database administrator. BigQuery is compatible with a lot of GCP's services, such as Cloud Datalab, that allow the user to represents data in an innovative way. This lab will show you the basic concepts of BigQuery and will allow you to handle data and query them in a real GCP environment.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

Understand the key concepts of Google BigQuery
Explain what Datasets and Tables represent
Perform queries on data inside Google BigQuery

Intended Audience

This lab is intended for:

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) certification candidates
Individuals that are familiar with SQL and databases who want to deep know big data solutions
Solutions architects who want to build smart, efficient and responsive data infrastructures