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Configuring the bq shell

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Configuring the bq shell

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- So far in this course, we have covered many different operations that can be performed with BigQuery, but we have restricted our activities to its graphical user interface. We will now turn our attention to the BQ command line interface to work with BigQuery. We will require some shell or terminal to run BQ, and the easiest option is to pull up the Google Cloud Shell. We can access this from the Google Cloud platform ribbon here. This will pull up a separate frame in the browser, and we will be connected to the shell or the terminal of a temporary VM that has been brought up by GCP. This VM has been pre-configured with the GCloud command line utility for GCP and also with the currently active project in your account, which for me is loony-bigquery. To improve the visibility of the commands I'm going to run, I will just expand this particular frame, and in fact bring it up in a separate window. This will provision a…

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