The reason why Google needs a true version of PostgreSQL running in the cloud is that it needs to help enterprise customers who are stuck on IBM DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server relational ...

Google Cloud just unveiled a new edition of Cloud SQL, its enterprise-ready, fully managed database service for running MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server workloads. Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus, ...

The default login for SQL Server gives a user the GCP role "CustomerDbRootRole," which does not allow for using the "create/alter" command to do anything on the server level.

According to Google on its Data Studio help page, the connector uses the V7.2 JDBC driver, and is also compatible with the 2016, 2014, 2012 and 2008 versions of Microsoft SQL.