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Data Warehousing with BigQuery: Storage Design, Query Optimization, and Administration

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Overview

In this course, you learn about the internals of BigQuery and best practices for designing, optimizing, and administering your data warehouse. Through a combination of lectures, demos, and labs, you learn about BigQuery architecture and how to design optimal storage and schemas for data ingestion and changes.

What You'll Learn

  • Describe BigQuery architecture fundamentals
  • Implement storage and schema design patterns to improve performance
  • Use DML and schedule data transfers to ingest data
  • Apply best practices to improve read efficiency and optimize query performance
  • Manage capacity and automate workloads
  • Understand patterns versus anti-patterns to optimize queries and improve read performance
  • Use logging and monitoring tools to understand and optimize usage patterns
  • Apply security best practices to govern data and resources
  • Build and deploy several categories of machine learning models with BigQuery ML

Who Should Attend

Data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and developers who perform work on a scale that requires advanced BigQuery internals knowledge to optimize performance

Prerequisites

Introduction to Data Engineering

Products Covered

BigQuery

Course Modules

1

BigQuery Architecture Fundamentals

Topics

  • Introduction
  • BigQuery Core Infrastructure
  • BigQuery Storage
  • BigQuery Query Processing
  • BigQuery Data Shuffling

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain the benefits of columnar storage
  • Understand how BigQuery processes data
  • Explore the basics of BigQuery's shuffling service to improve query efficiency

Activities

Labs and demos
2

Storage and Schema Optimizations

Topics

  • BigQuery Storage
  • Partitioning and Clustering
  • Nested and Repeated Fields
  • ARRAY and STRUCT syntax
  • Best Practices

Learning Outcomes

  • Compare the performance of different schemas (snowflake, denormalized, and nested and repeated fields)
  • Partition and cluster data for better performance
  • Improve schema design using nested and repeated fields
  • Describe additional best practices such as table and partition expiration

Activities

Labs and demos
3

Ingesting Data

Topics

  • Data Ingestion Options
  • Batch Ingestion
  • Streaming Ingestion
  • Legacy Streaming API
  • BigQuery Storage Write API
  • Query Materialization
  • Query External Data Sources
  • Data Transfer Service

Learning Outcomes

  • Ingest batch and streaming data
  • Query external data sources
  • Schedule data transfers
  • Understand how to use Storage Write API

Activities

Labs and demos
4

Changing Data

Topics

  • Managing Change in Data Warehouses
  • Handling Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)
  • DML statements
  • DML Best Practices and Common Issues

Learning Outcomes

  • Write DML statements
  • Address common DML performance problems and bottlenecks
  • Identify slowly changing dimensions (SCD) in your data and make updates
5

Improving Read Performance

Topics

  • BigQuery's Cache
  • Materialized Views
  • BI Engine
  • High Throughput Reads
  • BigQuery Storage Read API

Learning Outcomes

  • Explore BigQuery's cache
  • Create materialized views
  • Work with BI Engine to accelerate your SQL queries
  • Use the Storage Read API for fast access to BigQuery-managed storage
  • Explain the caveats of using external data sources

Activities

Labs and demos
6

Optimizing and Troubleshooting Queries

Topics

  • Simple Query Execution
  • SELECTs and Aggregation
  • JOINs and Skewed JOINs
  • Filtering and Ordering
  • Best Practices for Functions

Learning Outcomes

  • Interpret BigQuery execution details and the query plan
  • Optimize query performance by using suggested methods for SQL statements and clauses
  • Demonstrate best practices for functions in business use cases

Activities

Labs and demos
7

Workload Management and Pricing

Topics

  • BigQuery Slots
  • Pricing Models and Estimates
  • Slot Reservations
  • Controlling Costs

Learning Outcomes

  • Define a BigQuery slot
  • Explain pricing models and pricing estimations (BigQuery UI, bq dry_run, jobs API)
  • Understand slot reservations, commitments, and assignments
  • Identify best practices to control costs

Activities

Demos
8

Logging and Monitoring

Topics

  • Cloud Monitoring
  • BigQuery Admin Panel
  • Cloud Audit Logs
  • INFORMATION_SCHEMA
  • Query Path and Common Errors

Learning Outcomes

  • Use Cloud Monitoring to view BigQuery metrics
  • Explore the BigQuery admin panel
  • Use Cloud Audit logs
  • Work with INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables to get insights for your BigQuery entities

Activities

Labs and demos
9

Security in BigQuery

Topics

  • Secure Resources with IAM
  • Authorized Views
  • Secure Data with Classification
  • Encryption
  • Data Discovery and Governance

Learning Outcomes

  • Explore data discovery using Data Catalog
  • Discuss data governance using DLP API and Data Catalog
  • Create IAM policies (e.g., authorized views) to secure resources
  • Secure data with classifications (e.g., row-level policies)
  • Understand how BigQuery uses encryption

Activities

Labs and demos
10

Automating Workloads

Topics

  • Scheduling Queries
  • Scripting
  • Stored Procedures
  • Integration with Big Data Products

Learning Outcomes

  • Schedule queries
  • Use scripting and stored procedures to build custom transformations
  • Describe how to integrate BigQuery workloads with other Google Cloud big data products

Activities

Demos
11

Machine Learning in BigQuery

Topics

  • Introduction to BigQuery ML
  • How to Make Predictions with BigQuery ML
  • How to Build and Deploy a Recommendation System with BigQuery ML
  • How to Build and Deploy a Demand Forecasting Solution with BigQuery ML
  • Time-Series Models with BigQuery ML
  • BigQuery ML Explainability

Learning Outcomes

  • Describe some of the different applications of BigQuery ML
  • Build and deploy several categories of machine learning models with BigQuery ML
  • Use AutoML Tables to solve high-value business problems

Activities

Labs and demos

What's Not Covered

  • Introduction to BigQuery, basic data warehousing concepts, distributed data processing concepts, SQL: these are all prerequisites/assumed prior knowledge
  • Administrative tasks, data warehouse migrations, analyzing data with BigQuery: these are not the focus of this course and are covered in other courses

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Course Details

Course Code
T-DWBQ-I
Duration
3 days
Format
ILT
Level
Intermediate
Modules
11
Activities
11
Price
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