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BigQuery Fundamentals for Oracle Professionals

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About this Course

This course covers BigQuery fundamentals for professionals who are familiar with SQL-based cloud data warehouses in Oracle and want to begin working in BigQuery. Through interactive lecture content and hands-on labs, you learn how to provision resources, create and share data assets, ingest data, and optimize query performance in BigQuery. Drawing upon your knowledge of Oracle, you also learn about similarities and differences between Oracle and BigQuery to help you get started with data warehouses in BigQuery.

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What you will learn

Describe BigQuery’s architecture, resource provisioning, and data definition model.
Create, secure, and share BigQuery data assets using best practices.
Implement common patterns and best practices for designing schemas, ingesting data, and querying data in BigQuery.
Compare and contrast the differences and commonalities between Oracle and BigQuery.

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100% online

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Includes hands on learning projects.

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 5 hours to complete

English

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

1 hour to complete

Module 1: BigQuery Architecture and Resource Provisioning

This introductory module summarizes the key details of BigQuery architecture and resource provisioning including how BigQuery utilizes slots to execute SQL queries and workload management in BigQuery. Drawing upon your knowledge of Oracle, this module also provides a high-level overview of the similarities and differences between Oracle and BigQuery architecture and resource provisioning to help you get started with BigQuery.

1 hour to complete

1 video (Total 5 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

16 minutes to complete

Module 2: BigQuery Data Definition Model

This module summarizes the key details of BigQuery’s resource hierarchy and data definition model, including how to create datasets and tables in BigQuery. Drawing upon your knowledge of Oracle, this module also provides a high-level overview of the similarities and differences between the Oracle and BigQuery resource hierarchies and primary data types to help you start working with data in BigQuery.

16 minutes to complete

1 reading

1 hour to complete

Module 3: BigQuery and Google Cloud IAM

This module summarizes the key details of the Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) model, including how roles and permissions are applied to datasets and tables in BigQuery. Drawing upon your knowledge of Oracle, this module also provides a high-level overview of the similarities and differences in roles and permissions between Oracle and BigQuery to help you start securing and sharing your data in BigQuery.

1 hour to complete

1 reading

Week2

Week 2

16 minutes to complete

Module 4: BigQuery Data Ingestion

This module summarizes the primary options and best practices for ingesting data into BigQuery, including batch data loading, streaming ingestion, and queries to external data sources. Drawing upon your knowledge of Oracle, this module also provides a high-level overview of the similarities and differences in data ingestion options between Oracle and BigQuery to help you start reading and loading your data into BigQuery.

16 minutes to complete

1 reading

1 hour to complete

Module 5: BigQuery Schema Design and Optimization

This module summarizes common patterns and best practices for designing and optimizing table schemas in BigQuery, including the use of nested and repeated fields, partitioning, and clustering. Drawing upon your knowledge of Oracle, this module also provides a high-level overview of the similarities and differences in schema usage and design between Oracle and BigQuery to help you start structuring and optimizing your data in BigQuery.

1 hour to complete

1 reading

1 hour to complete

Module 6: SQL in BigQuery

This module summarizes the key features and operations of the Google Standard SQL dialect used in BigQuery and best practices for optimizing query performance and controlling costs in BigQuery. Drawing upon your knowledge of Oracle, this module also provides a high-level overview of the similarities and differences in the SQL dialects and features between Oracle and BigQuery to help you start running and optimizing queries in BigQuery.

1 hour to complete

1 reading

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BigQuery Fundamentals for Oracle Professionals

BigQuery Fundamentals for Oracle Professionals

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