Click the name of an instance. The instance overview page is displayed.
Under the Databases list on this page, click the name of a database.
Under Tables, click the name of a table.
In the left pane of the Google Cloud console, click Data.
Insert data
On the table's Data page, click Insert.
The Google Cloud console displays the table's Spanner Studio page
with a new query tab containing template INSERT and SELECT statements
that you edit to insert a row in the table and view the result of that
insertion.
Edit the INSERT statement to the values you want, and edit the SELECT
statement's WHERE clause to match the primary key value of the row you are
inserting.
On the table's Data page, select the row you want to
edit, then click Edit.
The Google Cloud console displays the table's Spanner Studio page
with a new query tab containing template UPDATE and SELECT statements
that you edit to update the row in the table and view the result of that
update.
Note that the WHERE clauses of both statements denote the row you selected
to edit.
Edit the UPDATE statement to reflect the updates you want to make.
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