Export Data from BigQuery to Cloud Storage

Overview

Labs are timed and cannot be paused. The timer starts when you click Start Lab.
The included cloud terminal is preconfigured with the gcloud SDK.
Use the terminal to execute commands and then click Check my progress to verify your work.

Challenge scenario

You want to export the data that contains the specific information and store it in the cloud storage bucket. You have a csv file (customers.csv) locally that contains customer information. Also, a cloud storage bucket (qwiklabs-gcp-04-58870faf67f8-bucket), bigquery dataset customer_details and a table customers are available to you. The precreated bucket already has the customers.csv file.

You need to complete the following tasks:

Load the schema from the local CSV file customers.csv into the customers table.

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Load the schema from local 'customers.csv' file into the customers table.

Create a new table named male_customers from the existing customers table that contains only the rows where the gender column is "Male" as well as the customer ID.

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Create a 'male_customers' table from the existing 'customers' table.

Export the newly created male_customers table to an existing Google Cloud Storage bucket in CSV format as exported_male_customers.csv file.

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Export the 'male_customers' table to an existing Google Cloud Storage bucket.

Solution of Lab

https://youtu.be/Bb1VoSyCMYc

Quick

curl -LO raw.githubusercontent.com/ePlus-DEV/storage/refs/heads/main/labs/export-data-from-big-query-to-cloud-storage/lab.sh
source lab.sh

Manual

bq load --source_format=CSV --autodetect customer_details.customers customers.csv

bq query --use_legacy_sql=false --destination_table customer_details.male_customers 'SELECT CustomerID, Gender FROM customer_details.customers WHERE Gender="Male"'

PROJECT_ID=$(gcloud config get-value project)
bq extract customer_details.male_customers gs://${PROJECT_ID}-bucket/exported_male_customers.csv

bq query --use_legacy_sql=false --replace --destination_table=customer_details.male_customers 'SELECT CustomerID, Gender FROM customer_details.customers WHERE Gender = "Male"'

Export Data from BigQuery to Cloud Storage

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