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+sample_db_export.sql
diff --git a/bigquery/dml/README.md b/bigquery/dml/README.md
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+# BigQuery DML Samples
+
+<!-- auto-doc-link -->
+These samples are used on the following documentation page:
+
+> https://cloud.google.combigquery/docs/loading-data-sql-dml
+
+<!-- end-auto-doc-link -->
+
+To create a test database, run the `populate_db.py` script.
+
+```
+python populate_db.py 100 localhost root 'mysql-password' sample_db
+```
+
diff --git a/bigquery/dml/insert_sql.py b/bigquery/dml/insert_sql.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Sample that runs a file containing INSERT SQL statements in Big Query.
+
+This could be used to run the INSERT statements in a mysqldump output such as
+
+    mysqldump --user=root \
+        --password='secret-password' \
+        --host=127.0.0.1 \
+        --no-create-info sample_db \
+        --skip-add-locks > sample_db_export.sql
+
+To run, first create tables with the same names and columns as the sample
+database. Then run this script.
+
+    python insert_sql.py my-project my_dataset sample_db_export.sql
+"""
+
+# [START insert_sql]
+import argparse
+
+from gcloud import bigquery
+
+
+def insert_sql(project, default_dataset, sql_path):
+    """Run all the SQL statements in a SQL file."""
+
+    client = bigquery.Client(project=project)
+
+    with open(sql_path) as f:
+        for line in f:
+            line = line.strip()
+
+            if not line.startswith('INSERT'):
+                continue
+
+            print('Running query: {}{}'.format(
+                line[:60],
+                '...' if len(line) > 60 else ''))
+            query = client.run_sync_query(line)
+
+            # Set use_legacy_sql to False to enable standard SQL syntax.
+            # This is required to use the Data Manipulation Language features.
+            #
+            # For more information about enabling standard SQL, see:
+            # https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/enabling-standard-sql
+            query.use_legacy_sql = False
+            query.default_dataset = client.dataset(default_dataset)
+            query.run()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+            description=__doc__,
+            formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+        parser.add_argument('project', help='Google Cloud project name')
+        parser.add_argument(
+                'default_dataset', help='Default BigQuery dataset name')
+        parser.add_argument('sql_path', help='Path to SQL file')
+
+        args = parser.parse_args()
+
+        insert_sql(args.project, args.default_dataset, args.sql_path)
+# [END insert_sql]
diff --git a/bigquery/dml/insert_sql_test.py b/bigquery/dml/insert_sql_test.py
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+# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os.path
+
+from insert_sql import insert_sql
+
+
+def test_insert_sql(cloud_config, capsys):
+    sql_path = os.path.join(
+        os.path.dirname(__file__),
+        'resources',
+        'insert_sql_test.sql')
+
+    insert_sql(cloud_config.project, 'test_dataset', sql_path)
+
+    out, _ = capsys.readouterr()
+
+    assert (
+        'INSERT INTO `test_table` (`Name`) VALUES (\'hello world\')'
+        in out)
diff --git a/bigquery/dml/populate_db.py b/bigquery/dml/populate_db.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Command-line tool to simulate user actions and write to SQL database.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import division
+
+import argparse
+import datetime
+import random
+import uuid
+
+from six.moves.urllib import parse
+import sqlalchemy
+from sqlalchemy.ext import declarative
+import sqlalchemy.orm
+
+
+SECONDS_IN_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60
+SECONDS_IN_2016 = 366 * SECONDS_IN_DAY
+
+# Unix timestamp for the beginning of 2016.
+# http://stackoverflow.com/a/19801806/101923
+TIMESTAMP_2016 = (
+    datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0) -
+    datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(0)).total_seconds()
+
+
+Base = declarative.declarative_base()
+
+
+class User(Base):
+    __tablename__ = 'Users'
+
+    id = sqlalchemy.Column(sqlalchemy.Integer, primary_key=True)
+    date_joined = sqlalchemy.Column(sqlalchemy.DateTime)
+
+
+class UserSession(Base):
+    __tablename__ = 'UserSessions'
+
+    id = sqlalchemy.Column(sqlalchemy.String(length=36), primary_key=True)
+    user_id = sqlalchemy.Column(
+            sqlalchemy.Integer, sqlalchemy.ForeignKey('Users.id'))
+    login_time = sqlalchemy.Column(sqlalchemy.DateTime)
+    logout_time = sqlalchemy.Column(sqlalchemy.DateTime)
+    ip_address = sqlalchemy.Column(sqlalchemy.String(length=40))
+
+
+def generate_users(session, num_users):
+    users = []
+
+    for userid in range(1, num_users + 1):
+        year_portion = random.random()
+        date_joined = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(
+            TIMESTAMP_2016 + SECONDS_IN_2016 * year_portion)
+        user = User(id=userid, date_joined=date_joined)
+        users.append(user)
+        session.add(user)
+
+    session.commit()
+    return users
+
+
+def random_ip():
+    """Choose a random example IP address.
+
+    Examples are chosen from the test networks described in
+    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737
+    """
+    network = random.choice([
+        '192.0.2',  # RFC-5737 TEST-NET-1
+        '198.51.100',  # RFC-5737 TEST-NET-2
+        '203.0.113',  # RFC-5737 TEST-NET-3
+    ])
+    ip_address = '{}.{}'.format(network, random.randrange(256))
+    return ip_address
+
+
+def simulate_user_session(session, user, previous_user_session=None):
+    """Simulates a single session (login to logout) of a user's history."""
+    login_time = user.date_joined
+
+    if previous_user_session is not None:
+        login_time = (
+            previous_user_session.logout_time +
+            datetime.timedelta(
+                days=1, seconds=random.randrange(SECONDS_IN_DAY)))
+
+    session_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
+    user_session = UserSession(
+        id=session_id,
+        user_id=user.id,
+        login_time=login_time,
+        ip_address=random_ip())
+    user_session.logout_time = (
+        login_time +
+        datetime.timedelta(seconds=(1 + random.randrange(59))))
+    session.commit()
+    session.add(user_session)
+    return user_session
+
+
+def simulate_user_history(session, user):
+    """Simulates the entire history of activity for a single user."""
+    total_sessions = random.randrange(10)
+    previous_user_session = None
+
+    for _ in range(total_sessions):
+        user_session = simulate_user_session(
+            session, user, previous_user_session)
+        previous_user_session = user_session
+
+
+def run_simulation(session, users):
+    """Simulates app activity for all users."""
+
+    for n, user in enumerate(users):
+        if n % 100 == 0 and n != 0:
+            print('Simulated data for {} users'.format(n))
+
+        simulate_user_history(session, user)
+
+    print('COMPLETE: Simulated data for {} users'.format(len(users)))
+
+
+def populate_db(session, total_users=3):
+    """Populate database with total_users simulated users and their actions."""
+    users = generate_users(session, total_users)
+    run_simulation(session, users)
+
+
+def create_session(engine):
+    Base.metadata.drop_all(engine)
+    Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
+    Session = sqlalchemy.orm.sessionmaker(bind=engine)
+    return Session()
+
+
+def main(total_users, host, user, password, db_name):
+    engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine(
+        'mysql+pymysql://{user}:{password}@{host}/{db_name}'.format(
+            user=user,
+            password=parse.quote_plus(password),
+            host=host,
+            db_name=db_name))
+    session = create_session(engine)
+
+    try:
+        populate_db(session, total_users)
+    finally:
+        session.close()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description=__doc__,
+        formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+    parser.add_argument(
+        'total_users', help='How many simulated users to create.', type=int)
+    parser.add_argument('host', help='Host of the database to write to.')
+    parser.add_argument('user', help='User to connect to the database.')
+    parser.add_argument('password', help='Password for the database user.')
+    parser.add_argument('db', help='Name of the database to write to.')
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    main(args.total_users, args.host, args.user, args.password, args.db)
diff --git a/bigquery/dml/populate_db_test.py b/bigquery/dml/populate_db_test.py
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+# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import sqlalchemy
+
+from populate_db import create_session, populate_db
+
+
+def test_populate_db_populates_users():
+    engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine('sqlite://')
+    session = create_session(engine)
+
+    try:
+        populate_db(session, total_users=10)
+
+        connection = session.connection().connection
+        cursor = connection.cursor()
+        cursor.execute('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Users')
+        assert cursor.fetchone()[0] == 10
+        cursor.execute('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM UserSessions')
+        assert cursor.fetchone()[0] >= 10
+    finally:
+        session.close()
diff --git a/bigquery/dml/requirements.txt b/bigquery/dml/requirements.txt
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+flake8==3.0.4
+gcloud==0.18.1
+PyMySQL==0.7.7
+six==1.10.0
+SQLAlchemy==1.0.15
diff --git a/bigquery/dml/resources/insert_sql_test.sql b/bigquery/dml/resources/insert_sql_test.sql
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+++ b/bigquery/dml/resources/insert_sql_test.sql
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+-- This file is used to test ../insert_sql.py.
+-- These are comments.
+-- Each query to be executed should be on a single line.
+
+/* Another ignored line. */
+INSERT INTO `test_table` (`Name`) VALUES ('hello world')
diff --git a/scripts/resources/docs-links.json b/scripts/resources/docs-links.json
index 60ea2ec76bf..19a77f6abdc 100644
--- a/scripts/resources/docs-links.json
+++ b/scripts/resources/docs-links.json
@@ -361,6 +361,9 @@
   "/bigquery/docs/data": [
     "bigquery/api/sync_query.py"
   ], 
+  "bigquery/docs/loading-data-sql-dml": [
+    "bigquery/dml/insert_sql.py"
+  ],
   "/appengine/docs/python/memcache/examples": [
     "appengine/memcache/snippets/snippets.py", 
     "appengine/memcache/guestbook/main.py"