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Learning Google BigQuery

By : Thirukkumaran Haridass, Mikhail Berlyant, Eric Brown
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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

Connecting to Cloud SQL using gcloud

There is more than one way to connect to a Cloud SQL instance from your machine, but the two most frequently used options are in the following list. The listed prerequisites for both the options require the MySQL client libraries to be installed on the local machine:

  • Adding the client machine IP address to authorized networks in Google Cloud Console
  • Installing a proxy script on the client machine and using that to connect to Google Cloud SQL

Authorizing the client machine via Google Cloud Console

Get the IP address of the client machine by opening the browser and navigating to this URL: http://ipv4.whatismyv6.com/. Note down the IP address shown on this page for your machine. Open Google...