What is GCP Cloud SQL?
Cloud computing is a very popular domain/field nowadays since we know all the companies including startup or multimillionaire businesses use cloud for storing their RDBMS. Earlier back in time we used to store databases in our computer system and managing them also used to be a quite hectic work but as time progressed the concept of cloud became popular. In cloud we are provided with large amounts of memory depending on the amount we pay to the companies that are providing us the cloud services.For example nowadays we use google photos , google drive, etc where we upload our data to save up our device’s space and backup facilities including maintaining facilities are also provided. So cloud reduces our effort and time. Google cloud (GCP) is also such a cloud computing platform provided by google which provides us with various tools for our projects, one of them is SQL. This means you can create databases using SQL as per your utility purpose or deploy clusters and web applications without maintaining it yourself in your own hardware as google cloud will take care of it for which you are also paying that platform and they provide you with many more facilities which you will know if you study about GCP in detail.
- An AppSheet plan that supports database connections.
- Access to a Google Cloud Platform account i.e You should already have an existing google cloud account or create it for using GCP. You can sign up for a free trial that includes $300 in credit to use on GCP services.
- Database Instance – The database instance is the structure that manages a collection of database files. An instance can hold several databases. In the tutorial below, you will generate a public IP address to connect with the database instance.
- Schema – In this context, schema and database are referring to the same thing. It is a collection of data made up of several tables. Schema is the term used in MySQL Workbench. Database is the term used in Google Cloud and AppSheet.
How to Create a MySQL Database with Cloud SQL on Google Cloud Platform?
The collection of all the data used for the proper functioning of our product is called a need database (DB) and the system that manages the DB is called a need Database Management System(DBMS).