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Defining a BigQuery table from the UI

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Defining a BigQuery table from the UI

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- [Instructor] Having created a dataset in a GCP project, it's now time for us to provision a table within the dataset. If you have the dataset info up, you should see this option to create a new table from here. Alternatively, we can head over to the project, then over to the dataset and choose the option to create a table. Of course, a form will pop up and we have the option of specifying a source for our table. This will allow us to pull in data from already existing sources such as the Google cloud storage, we could upload a file from our own file systems, and then there are handful of other options here, which includes connecting to an Amazon S3 bucket. The first table we create will be rather simple. In fact, it'll be an empty table. We also have the option of changing the project and dataset here. I'll just leave that untouched. As for the table name, I'm just going to call this Students since we will be storing…

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