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Using BigQuery instead of Cloud SQL or Cloud Spanner

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Using BigQuery instead of Cloud SQL or Cloud Spanner

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- [Instructor] Why would you use BigQuery instead of Cloud SQL or Cloud Spanner? Now, this is a great question because all of these products here can analyze relational data with SQL. And the big question or the problem you need to solve really is going to come down to whether or not you're needing to analyze information, or you're just looking to store it with some analyzing here and there. But if you're doing a lot of analysis of information, you're trying to learn about it, that's why you would choose BigQuery. And since seeing is believing, let's jump right into another demo so you can see what I'm talking about. So this is what I mean by why you would choose BigQuery over Cloud SQL or Spanner. Now, when I go into GCP, I'm not going to set up a brand new database, but I want to show you, when you look under the database side on GCP on the left-hand side, you see Spanner and SQL, so we're going to open those up.…

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