GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question
Your team is migrating 50 TB of transactional data from an on-premises MySQL database to Cloud Spanner by using a Dataflow pipeline. Before cut-over, auditors require evidence that every source table's row count and column-level checksums are identical in the target system. You need an automated, scalable solution that can read from both databases and output a summary report highlighting any mismatches. Which Google-supported approach should you recommend?
Create Cloud Monitoring uptime checks with a custom metric that queries each table's row count and triggers an alert on mismatch.
Run the open-source Data Validation Tool as a Dataflow job to compare row counts and column aggregates between MySQL and Cloud Spanner.
Enable Datastream schema drift detection and export the alert logs to Cloud Logging for post-migration analysis.
Use Cloud SQL Insights to collect query statistics from both environments and manually compare the results.
The open-source Data Validation Tool (DVT) is designed specifically to verify large-scale data migrations. It runs Apache Beam pipelines (locally or on Dataflow) that connect to two heterogeneous data stores, compute row counts and configurable column aggregates (such as checksums), and write a summary of any discrepancies. Datastream's drift alerts focus on schema changes, not data accuracy. Cloud SQL Insights surfaces query performance, not data parity. Cloud Monitoring uptime checks report service availability, not detailed table-level comparisons.
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