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Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical database service that brings together relational, graph, key-value, and search. It offers transactional consistency at global scale, automatic, synchronous replication for high availability, and support for two SQL dialects: GoogleSQL (ANSI 2011 with extensions) and PostgreSQL.

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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Architecting with Google Cloud: Design and Process

This course features a combination of lectures, design activities, and hands-on labs to show you how to use proven design patterns on Google Cloud to build highly reliable and efficient solutions and operate deployments that are highly available and cost-effective.

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Spanner with Spring Boot

Learn how to connect to Cloud SQL from Cloud Run

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Architecting disaster recovery for locality-restricted workloads

Discusses how to use Google Cloud to architect for disaster recovery (DR) to meet location-specific requirements.

Disaster Recovery

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Continuous data replication to Spanner using Striim

Demonstrates migrating a MySQL database to Spanner using Striim.

Replication Migration

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Database migration: Concepts and principles (Part 1)

Introduces concepts, principles, terminology, and architecture of near-zero downtime database migrations to Google Cloud.

Migration

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Creating a change log with JDBC using the commit timestamp feature of Spanner

Shows how to use the commit timestamp feature to track the date and time when changes are made to your database records.

Java Changes

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Best practices for using Spanner as a gaming database

Describes best practices for using Spanner as the primary backend database for game state storage.

Shards Gaming

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Getting started with Spanner in Python

First steps using Spanner with Python

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