Tag: BigQuery

  • Use MySQL Trigger To Do Incremental ETL

    There’s a huge MySQL table that I need to ETL to Google BigQuery daily, about 1 billion rows. The rows are updated in a random fashion all the time so I can’t do incremental ETL by the recording the max primary key. Then my colleague brought up the trigger idea, which I believe is the…

  • MySQL/ Aurora to Google BigQuery

    Google BigQuery(BQ) is Google’s column storage, it’s super fast when you need to query over many gigabytes of data. BQ defaults to utf8, so it makes sense the tables in MySQL/ Aurora are also utf8 encoded. I use Python and SQL Alchemy to load data to BQ. It’s a waste for SA’s ORM features but…