Cloud BigQuery Data Transfer Service
- BigQuery Data Transfer Service automates data movement into BigQuery on a scheduled, managed basis
- After a data transfer is configured, the BigQuery Data Transfer Service automatically loads data into BigQuery on a regular basis.
- BigQuery Data Transfer Service can also initiate data backfills to recover from any outages or gaps.
- BigQuery Data Transfer Service can only sink data to BigQuery and cannot be used to transfer data out of BigQuery.
BigQuery Data Transfer Service Sources
- BigQuery Data Transfer Service supports loading data from the following data sources:
- Google Software as a Service (SaaS) apps
- Campaign Manager
- Cloud Storage
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Ads
- Google Merchant Center (beta)
- Google Play
- Search Ads 360 (beta)
- YouTube Channel reports
- YouTube Content Owner reports
- External cloud storage providers
- Data warehouses
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- Your company uses Google Analytics for tracking. You need to export the session and hit data from a Google Analytics 360 reporting view on a scheduled basis into BigQuery for analysis. How can the data be exported?
- Configure a scheduler in Google Analytics to convert the Google Analytics data to JSON format, then import directly into BigQuery using
bq
command line.
- Use
gsutil
to export the Google Analytics data to Cloud Storage, then import into BigQuery and schedule it using Cron.
- Import data to BigQuery directly from Google Analytics using Cron
- Use BigQuery Data Transfer Service to import the data from Google Analytics
Reference
Google_Cloud_BigQuery_Transfer_Service