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. 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