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Learning Google BigQuery

By : Thirukkumaran Haridass, Mikhail Berlyant, Eric Brown
Book Image

Learning Google BigQuery

By: Thirukkumaran Haridass, Mikhail Berlyant, Eric Brown

Overview of this book

Google BigQuery is a popular cloud data warehouse for large-scale data analytics. This book will serve as a comprehensive guide to mastering BigQuery, and how you can utilize it to quickly and efficiently get useful insights from your Big Data. You will begin with getting a quick overview of the Google Cloud Platform and the various services it supports. Then, you will be introduced to the Google BigQuery API and how it fits within in the framework of GCP. The book covers useful techniques to migrate your existing data from your enterprise to Google BigQuery, as well as readying and optimizing it for analysis. You will perform basic as well as advanced data querying using BigQuery, and connect the results to various third party tools for reporting and visualization purposes such as R and Tableau. If you're looking to implement real-time reporting of your streaming data running in your enterprise, this book will also help you. This book also provides tips, best practices and mistakes to avoid while working with Google BigQuery and services that interact with it. By the time you're done with it, you will have set a solid foundation in working with BigQuery to solve even the trickiest of data problems.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Google Cloud and Google BigQuery

Regular Expression Functions

The REGEXP_MATCH function will return true if the given value matches the regular expression. The following query will return true since the value passed is a valid email ID:

#legacySQL
SELECT REGEXP_MATCH('[email protected]',r'[\w-]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+')

The REGEXP_EXTRACT function will return the part of the string that matches the capturing group in the regular expression. The following example returns example. as the result since the domain name with . is inside the capturing group of this regular expression:

#legacySQL
SELECT REGEXP_EXTRACT('[email protected]',r'[\w-]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+')

The REGEXP_REPLACE function will replace the part of the string that matches the regular expression with the given value. The following query will replace the valid email ID with a place holder text:

SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE...