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Download and run the [installer](https://github.com/erikmafo/BigtableViewer/releases/latest)
for your operating system

Set the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to the path of a file containing the
credentials for a service account with access to your Bigtable tables.

## Basic Usage

When the application has started, click on the 'Add instance' button
To use different credentials than GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, click on 'File'->'Set credentials'.

Enter the project and instance id of a Bigtable instance. The application should display all the tables of the instance.
To add a Bigtable instance click on 'Add instance', enter the project and instance id and click 'Ok'.
The application should display all the tables of the instance.

Click on the table that you would like to query. A default query, selecting the first 1000 rows of the selected table,
should appear in the query box. Click 'Execute' to execute the query.

To use different credentials than GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, click on 'File'->'Set credentials'

## Table schema

Bigtable viewer works best with tables where the data in each column corresponds to a standard data type. By clicking
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