You must share a dataset with another company without copying it. What fits?
Why A is the answer
BigQuery sharing (Analytics Hub)
BigQuery sharing, through listings, lets another company use a dataset with no copy.
In detail
- BigQuery sharing (Analytics Hub) shares data without copying it.
- The publisher keeps control.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A retailer shares a dataset with a supplier through a listing, and no copy is made.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Publisher dataset"] --> B["BigQuery sharing listing"] B --> C["Subscriber A"] B --> D["Subscriber B"]
mindmap
root((Governance))
Location
Regional storage
Organization policies
Protection
Cloud DLP
Data masking
Separation
Project per environment
Ownership
Federated governancesequenceDiagram participant P0 as Publisher participant P1 as Listing participant P2 as Subscriber P0->>P1: Publish dataset P2-->>P1: Subscribe P1->>P2: Linked dataset
Key point: BigQuery sharing avoids copies.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. A scheduled export to Cloud Storage
- An export is a copy.
- C. A copy in their project
- That is a copy.
- D. A shared password
- A shared password is unsafe.