Google BigQuery. Everything about data warehouses, analytics, and machine learning

Are you intimidated by the need to process petabyte-scale datasets? Meet Google BigQuery, a data storage system that can consolidate data across the enterprise, facilitates interactive analysis, and enables machine learning tasks. Now you can efficiently store, query, retrieve, and... explore data in one convenient environment. Valyappa Lakshmanan and Jordan Taijani will teach you how to work in a modern data warehouse using all the capabilities of a scalable, serverless public cloud. With this book you will: - Dive into the inner workings of BigQuery - Learn about the data types, functions, and operators supported by BigQuery - Optimize queries and implement performance improvement or cost reduction schemes - Discover GIS, time travel, DDL/DML, user-defined functions, and SQL scripts - Solve numerous machine learning tasks - Learn how to secure data, monitor workloads, and authorize users.