Cloud SQL is a relational database service that has a lot to offer. Features such as high availability and more are built into the service, which has been widely adopted across industries. Through this course, learn about advanced Cloud SQL topics. Practice provisioning Cloud SQL instances that are running both PostgreSQL and MySQL database engines and configuring a Cloud SQL instance for high availability. Next, discover how to test a failover process and how read replicas can be provisioned. Finally, learn how to migrate from a VM MySQL database to a MySQL instance in Google Cloud SQL and integrate a Cloud SQL instance with App Engine and BigQuery. Upon completion, you'll be able to provision instances of Cloud SQL using different database engines.

Google Cloud SQL is a cloud-hosted, fully-managed database service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With Cloud SQL, users focus on modeling and managing the data in the systems, and GCP takes care of the management of the infrastructure and platform. Through this course, learn about Cloud SQL's architecture and features and how to set up a MySQL instance on this service. Explore Cloud SQL and some of its significant features and use cases. Next, practice provisioning a MySQL database instance and connect to Cloud SQL from an external client. Finally, discover some important configuration options for a Cloud SQL instance. Upon completion, you'll be able to name Cloud SQL's features and use cases and provision a MySQL instance.