On-demand activities
Find the right on-demand learning activities for you. Labs are short learning activities that teach you a specific lesson by giving you direct, temporary, hands-on access to real cloud resources. Courses are longer activities, consisting of several modules made of videos, documents, hands-on labs and quizzes. Finally, quests are similar, but are usually shorter and contain only labs.
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Course Featured Understanding Cloud Spanner
In this course you will learn about Cloud Spanner. You will get an introduction to Cloud Spanner, contrasting it with other Database products to understand when and how to use Spanner to solve your relational database needs at scale. You will learn how to create and manage Spanner databases using various tools on …
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Lab Featured Cloud Spanner - Database Fundamentals
In this lab, you perform basic administrative tasks within a Cloud Spanner instance.
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Lab Featured Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances: Challenge Lab
In this challenge lab, you demonstrate your knowledge of Cloud Spanner that you learned from the Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances course.
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Lab Featured Cloud Spanner - Loading Data and Performing Backups
In this lab, you explore various ways to load data into Cloud Spanner as well as perform a backup of your database.
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Lab Featured Cloud Spanner - Defining Schemas and Understanding Query Plans
In this lab, you review schema related features of Cloud Spanner and apply those to a Banking Operations database. You also review the methods and rules by which Cloud Spanner creates query plans.
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Lab Featured Deploy a Modern Web App connected to a Cloud Spanner Instance
In this lab, you build and deploy a Node.js application connected to a Cloud Spanner instance. The Node.js application is a stock price visualization tool named OmegaTrade. The OmegaTrade application stores stock prices in Cloud Spanner and renders visualizations using Google Charts.
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Course Featured Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances
Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and interacting with Cloud Spanner instances and databases; loading Cloud Spanner databases using various techniques; backing up Cloud Spanner databases; defining schemas and understandi…
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Lab Featured Reconciling Account Data with Cloud Spanner Change Streams
Learn how to perform financial account reconciliation tasks using Cloud Spanner, Dataflow, and BigQuery.
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Lab Featured Online Data Migration to Cloud Spanner using Striim
In this lab you will learn how to migrate a Cloud SQL for MySQL database to Cloud Spanner using Google Cloud's data migration partner, Striim.
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Lab Featured Leverage the Autoscaler Tool for Cloud Spanner to Achieve Workload Elasticity
In this lab you'll deploy the open-source Autoscaler tool for Cloud Spanner, a companion tool to Cloud Spanner, in the per-project configuration where the autoscaler tools are located in the same project as the Cloud Spanner instance being autoscaled.