Managing Cloud SQL instances

Cloud SQL is a managed service, meaning your instances should remain healthy and available without the need for human intervention. However, there are quite a few operational tasks and settings that teams will likely want to customize in order to fine-tune their Cloud SQL instances to meet the specific needs of a given application. 

Maintenance operations

More than likely, the most common operations that teams will want to perform on their Cloud SQL instances will be related to data management. Such operations include creating and restoring backups, and exporting or importing data from external sources. Cloud SQL offers simple interfaces for performing each of these tasks.

Importing data to Cloud SQL

Cloud SQL supports importing and exporting data via a managed interface, available in both the Cloud Console and the gcloud CLI. Data can be imported and exported as either SQL dump files or CSV files, for both MySQL and PostgreSQL instances. Additionally, there are...