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Data Warehousing w/BigQuery: Storage Design, Query Optimization, Administration
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...
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$2,700 USD
GSA
$1,670.03
Duration
3 days
Course Code
GCP-DWB-SQA
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
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. Next, you learn techniques to improve read performance, optimize queries, manage workloads, and use logging and monitoring tools. You also learn about the different pricing models. Finally, you learn various methods to secure data, automate workloads, and build machine learning models with BigQuery ML.
Skills Gained
- 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 Can Benefit
Data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and developers who perform work on a scale that requires advanced BigQuery internals knowledge to optimize performance.
Prerequisites
Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Course Details
Course Outline
- BigQuery Architecture Fundamentals
- Storage and Schema Optimizations
- Ingesting Data
- Changing Data
- Improving Read Performance
- Optimizing and Troubleshooting Queries
- Workload Management and Pricing
- Logging and Monitoring
- Security in BigQuery
- Automating Workloads
- Machine Learning in BigQuery
Schedule
2 options available
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Apr 30, 2025 - May 2, 2025 (3 days)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 options below Live Virtual |9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Oct 22, 2025 - Oct 24, 2025 (3 days)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 options below Live Virtual |9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
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