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Get started
Quickstart: Create and query a database in the Cloud Console
Create an instance in a private network and then import a database
Connect from a Cloud Service
Quickstart: Connect using private IP
Quickstart: Connect using the Cloud SQL Auth proxy
Quickstart: Connect from your local computer
Plan and prepare
Overview
Choose a Cloud SQL edition
Choose a machine series
Choose a storage option
Region availability
Data cache overview
Create and manage
Instances
- Create instances
- Edit instances
- Clone instances
- Start, stop, and restart instances
- Label instances
- Delete instances
- Prevent deletion of an instance
- Supported instance settings
- View instance information
- Configure database flags
- Manage instance locations
- Manage connectivity tests
- Manage capacity
  - About storage shrink
  - Shrink instance storage capacity
- Manage maintenance updates
- Upgrade
  - Upgrade an instance to Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition
    Upgrade an instance by using in-place upgrade
  - Upgrade an instance to the new network architecture
  - Upgrade the database major version
    Upgrade the database major version in-place
    Upgrade the database major version by migrating data
- Use best practices
  - General best practices
  - Operational guidelines
Databases
- Create and manage databases
- Manage the tempdb database
- Data virtualization using PolyBase
- Linked servers
  - About linked servers
  - Manage linked servers
Users
- About SQL Server users
- Cloud SQL built-in database authentication
- Create and manage users
- Managed Microsoft AD in Cloud SQL
- Customer-managed Microsoft AD in Cloud SQL
  - Customer-managed Active Directory overview
  - Use customer-managed Active Directory
Cloud SQL Studio
- Manage your data using Cloud SQL Studio
- Write SQL with Gemini Assistance
Manage your resources using Knowledge Catalog
Secure and control access
Overview
- About access control
- Data residency overview
Use Secret Manager to handle secrets in Cloud SQL
Organization policies
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Integration with Microsoft Entra ID
Fine-grained access control with tags
- Access control with Google Cloud tags