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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #51

Your company is loading comma-separated values (CSV) files into Google BigQuery. The data is fully imported successfully; however, the imported data is not matching byte-to-byte to the source file. Wh

The correct answer is C. The CSV data loaded in BigQuery is not using BigQuery's default encoding.. Explanation/Reference: Bigquery understands UTF-8 encoding anything other than that will result in data issues with schema.

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Question

Your company is loading comma-separated values (CSV) files into Google BigQuery. The data is fully imported successfully; however, the imported data is not matching byte-to-byte to the source file. What is the most likely cause of this problem?

Options

  • AThe CSV data loaded in BigQuery is not flagged as CSV.
  • BThe CSV data has invalid rows that were skipped on import.
  • CThe CSV data loaded in BigQuery is not using BigQuery's default encoding.
  • DThe CSV data has not gone through an ETL phase before loading into BigQuery.

How the community answered

(57 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    7% (4)
  • C
    88% (50)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: Bigquery understands UTF-8 encoding anything other than that will result in data issues with schema.

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#BigQuery import#CSV encoding#data ingestion#encoding mismatch

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