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spanner-basics

Assists in provisioning instances and databases, designing performant schemas, and querying data in Cloud Spanner on Google Cloud. Use when designing primary keys, writing SQL queries or client library code, or diagnosing performance issues.

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# Spanner Basics

This skill provides core workflows and guidance for administering and developing with Cloud Spanner on Google Cloud, a fully managed, mission-critical database service offering global transactional consistency and automatic, synchronous replication for high availability.

## Attribution

**MUST READ**: Before executing any `gcloud`, REST API, or MCP command, you
MUST read [Usage Attribution](references/attribution.md). For commands executed
directly in the terminal (never in generated scripts, Terraform, or user code),
prefix `gcloud` with
`CLOUDSDK_METRICS_REQUEST_ATTRIBUTION="agent-skills/1.0 (skill:spanner-basics)"`
and append `agent-skills/1.0 (skill:spanner-basics)` to `User-Agent` headers.

## Core Principles