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Lab02 - View Sample Billing Data With BigQuery

The document introduces a lab that explores billing data exported to BigQuery. It instructs the reader to access a public dataset containing sample billing exports and run queries to analyze the data. Examples are provided, such as finding charges over $3 or which product had the highest number of records. The goal is to familiarize the reader with querying capabilities in BigQuery and discovering insights that can be learned from billing data.

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Lab02 - View Sample Billing Data With BigQuery

The document introduces a lab that explores billing data exported to BigQuery. It instructs the reader to access a public dataset containing sample billing exports and run queries to analyze the data. Examples are provided, such as finding charges over $3 or which product had the highest number of records. The goal is to familiarize the reader with querying capabilities in BigQuery and discovering insights that can be learned from billing data.

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Introduction

Part of working with billing data is working with data exported to BigQuery. In this
lab, we are going to view sample billing exports maintained by Google, and conduct
queries against a public dataset of billing exports. This will be a fun lab in that we
can play around with SQL queries in BigQuery and see what kind of results we can
get. Let's get started!
Once you are in your lab project, we will need to get into the BigQuery web console.
From the top left menu, scroll down to Big Data, and select BigQuery.
Now that we are in BigQuery, let's look at the sample dataset we are going to work
with. We are going to view all columns in our example table to see what fields are
included. From the large Query Editor box, copy and paste the following query, then
click the Run button:

SELECT *
FROM `cloud-training-prod-bucket.arch_infra.billing_data`

The field of cloud-training-prod-bucket.arch_infra.billing_data is the public


dataset we are working with.
If we click the Results tab underneath, we can view the entire table we are going to
work with. Feel free to experiment with other queries such as ordering by cost or
usage amount by adding the below string to your query to sort by the column of your
choice:

SELECT *
FROM `cloud-training-prod-bucket.arch_infra.billing_data`
ORDER BY cost DESC

In this query, we are bringing up the entire table contents, but sorting by the highest
cost first. You can experiment with other fields as well.
Let's now do some specific queries. In the same Query editor box, delete the existing
contents, and enter the below query to find all charges that were more than 3 dollars:

SELECT product, resource_type, start_time, end_time,


cost, project_id, project_name, project_labels_key, currency,
currency_conversion_rate,
usage_amount, usage_unit
FROM `cloud-training-prod-bucket.arch_infra.billing_data`
WHERE (cost > 3)

Next let’s find which product had the highest total number of records:

SELECT product, COUNT(*)


FROM `cloud-training-prod-bucket.arch_infra.billing_data`
GROUP BY product
LIMIT 200

Looks like Pub/Sub is pretty popular here...


Finally, let’s see which product most frequently cost more than a dollar:

SELECT product, cost, COUNT(*)


FROM `cloud-training-prod-bucket.arch_infra.billing_data`
WHERE (cost > 1)
GROUP BY cost, product
LIMIT 200

That will conclude this lab. You can quit anytime, however you are also free to
experiment with other query types as well. The great thing about working with
BigQuery is the flexibility of discovering what you can learn from your data!

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