Cloud SQL for MySQL documentation
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Training \nTraining and tutorials\n\n### Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure\n\n\nThese lectures, demos, and hands-on labs give you an overview of Google Cloud products and services so that you can learn the value of Google Cloud and how to incorporate cloud-based solutions into your business strategies.\n\n\n[Learn more](/training/course/core-infrastructure) \nTraining \nTraining and tutorials\n\n### Architecting with Google Cloud: Design and Process\n\n\nThis course features a combination of lectures, design activities, and hands-on labs to show you how to use proven design patterns on Google Cloud to build highly reliable and efficient solutions and operate deployments that are highly available and cost-effective.\n\n\n[Learn more](/training/course/architecting-design-process) \nUse case \nUse cases\n\n### Converting and optimizing queries from Oracle Database to Cloud SQL for MySQL\n\n\nDiscusses the basic query differences between Oracle® and Cloud SQL for MySQL, and how features in Oracle map to features in Cloud SQL for MySQL.\n\nMigration\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n[Learn more](/solutions/converting-optimizing-queries-oracle-database-cloud-sql-mysql) \nUse case \nUse cases\n\n### Migrating Oracle users to Cloud SQL for MySQL: Terminology and functionality\n\n\nPart of a series that provides key information and guidance related to planning and performing Oracle 11g/12c database migrations to Cloud SQL for MySQL version 5.7, second-generation instances.\n\nMigration\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n[Learn more](/solutions/migrating-oracle-users-to-mysql-terminology) \nUse case \nUse cases\n\n### Data residency overview\n\n\nLearn how to use Cloud SQL to enforce data residency requirements for data.\n\nData residency data\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n[Learn more](/sql/docs/mysql/data-residency-overview) \nUse case \nUse cases\n\n### Use Secret Manager to handle secrets in Cloud SQL\n\n\nLearn how to use Secret Manager to store sensitive information about Cloud SQL instances\nand users as secrets.\n\nSecret Manager secret\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n[Learn more](/sql/docs/mysql/use-secret-manager) \nCode sample \nCode Samples\n\n### Python SQLAlchemy\n\n\nUse SQLAlchemy with your Cloud SQL for MySQL database\n\n\n[Open GitHub\narrow_forward](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/tree/master/cloud-sql/mysql/sqlalchemy) \nCode sample \nCode Samples\n\n### Node.js sample\n\n\nConnecting to your Cloud SQL for MySQL database in Node.js\n\n\n[Open GitHub\narrow_forward](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples/tree/master/cloud-sql/mysql/mysql) \nCode sample \nCode Samples\n\n### PHP PDO\n\n\nConnecting your Cloud SQL for MySQL database using PHP PDO\n\n\n[Open GitHub\narrow_forward](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/php-docs-samples/tree/main/cloud_sql/mysql/pdo) \nCode sample \nCode Samples\n\n### Go web app sample\n\n\nSimple examples of connecting to Cloud SQL for MySQL using Go\n\n\n[Open GitHub\narrow_forward](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples/tree/master/cloudsql/mysql/database-sql) \nCode sample \nCode Samples\n\n### .NET sample\n\n\nThis sample application demonstrates how to store data in Google Cloud SQL with a MySQL database when running in Google App Engine Flexible Environment.\n\n\n[Open GitHub\narrow_forward](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/dotnet-docs-samples/tree/master/cloud-sql/mysql) \nCode sample \nCode Samples\n\n### Java servlet\n\n\nConnecting to Cloud SQL for MySQL from a Java application\n\n\n[Open GitHub\narrow_forward](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples/tree/master/cloud-sql/mysql/servlet) \nCode sample \nCode Samples\n\n### Terraform for Cloud SQL networking\n\n\nUse Terraform to create Cloud SQL for MySQL instances with private networking options.\n\n\n[Open GitHub\narrow_forward](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloudnetworking-config-solutions)\n\nRelated videos\n--------------\n\n### Try Cloud SQL for yourself\n\nCreate an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. \nNew customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads. \n[Try Cloud SQL free](https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial)"]]
