Connecting to Google BigQuery

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Connecting an Integration

Let’s start by setting up the integration.

Integrations live at the root level of Slai, which makes them accessible from any sandbox in your account. To create an integration, click the Integrations tab on the sidebar on your dashboard.

You’ll be presented with a list of existing integrations, if any exist. Click Add Integration to create a new one.

You’ll be prompted to enter a Name and Service Account Credentials in order to allow our app to query your database.

We recommend creating a new Service Account and setting strict BigQuery access in your Google Cloud Console.

Click Create Connection to add the integration to your list

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Creating a query in your sandbox

To access your BigQuery database in your project, you must add the integration in the sandbox. In the left-hand side of the sandbox, click the + button and select Import from Integration.

You will be prompted to select an integration, so select your BigQuery integration, and click Select Integration.

You will be prompted to enter a Query Name (which is how you’ll reference the saved query in training) and the Query (which is your raw query to the database). Click Import to continue.

Once you import the integration, you will see your BigQuery integration appear in your data section. You can add multiple queries from the same integration in your sandbox.

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Using the query data in the sandbox

After the query is attached to your sandbox, it will be stored as a file named results.csv that can be accessed like a regular file in your code.

The general file path will look something like ./integrations/bigquery/[query_name]/results.csv.

Alternatively, you can copy the path to your clipboard by right-clicking the query and clicking Copy Path.