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Question 12

The CFO of your company wants to improve an existing data warehouse by migrating it to Google Cloud. They want to minimize operational overhead while ensuring existing SQL tools can be used with the migrated data warehouse. What GCP service would you recommend?
  • A Bigtable
  • B Cloud SQL
  • C Cloud Spanner
  • D BigQuery
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Correct answer: D

Explanation

BigQuery is a managed, petabyte scale data warehouse, which uses SQL. Bigtable does not support SQL. Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner support SQL but are designed for transaction processing, not analytical applications like data warehouses. For more information, see https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/how-to.

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