The more information a business accumulates, the more acute the question of where to store it. If you don’t have the ability or desire to maintain your own servers, Google BigQuery (GBQ) can help. BigQuery provides fast, cost-effective, and scalable storage for working with big data, and it allows you to write queries using SQL-like syntax as well as standard and user-defined functions. In this article, we look at the main functions of BigQuery and show their possibilities using specific examples. You’ll learn how to write basic queries and test them on demo data.