Let’s explore more about Google Cloud’s BigQuery Sandbox with this article. At Bobcares, with our Google Cloud Platform Support Services, we can handle your BigQuery Sandbox issues.

Google Cloud BigQuery Sandbox

BigQuery Sandbox allows us to utilize the features of BigQuery without incurring any cost to confirm whether it fits our data storage and computing needs. We can access BigQuery and the Cloud Console without having to enter our credit card details, set up a billing account, or configure billing for the project. Additionally, we also get 10GB of free storage and 1 terabyte of query capacity each month with BigQuery Sandbox.

Anyone with a Google Account has access to the BigQuery sandbox. In this article, we will look into the steps to access BigQuery Sandbox from the Google cloud console.

How to access BigQuery Sandbox?

In order to access the Sandbox, we have to run the following instructions:

1. Firstly, click “Go to BigQuery” in the Google Cloud console to bring up the BigQuery page.
2. Then access Google Account using the login credentials.
3. Accept the terms of service.
4. To build a Google Cloud project, adhere to the instructions. We need to build a Cloud project in order to use the BigQuery sandbox.
5. The sandbox banner appears on the Google Cloud dashboard after we create a Cloud project.

How to upgrade BigQuery Sandbox?

The steps below can be used to upgrade from the BigQuery sandbox:

1. Firstly, enable billing for the project.
2. Update the BigQuery resources:
   • Discard or modify the dataset’s default table expiration.
   • Discard or modify the dataset’s default partition expiration.
   • Discard or modify the expiration time for your tables.
   • Discard or modify the expiration time for your views.
   • Discard or modify the expiration time for your table partitions.

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Conclusion

We have explored the details of Google Cloud BigQuery Sandbox in this article along with the methods from our Tech team to access and upgrade it.