## Sign up

Visit the [official website](🔗).

On the [free trial](🔗) page, sign up for a new account by filling in your basic information, then choose your `Cloud Provider` and `Region`.

Note: `Cloud provider` and `Region` CANNOT be changed after successful registration.

After registration is complete, you will receive an email to activate your ByteHouse account.

ByteHouse will generate a login URL in this email for account password initialisation. Click the login link and set/confirm password, then you will be automatically logged into the ByteHouse console.

## Getting started

In this tutorial, we'll perform a basic data analysis operation including `database/table creation`, `data loading`, and `SQL query`.

We'll also go through all the key functionalities and modules to gain a basic understanding of ByteHouse.

### Step 1. Log into ByteHouse

Enter your `Account Name`, `Region`, `Username` and `Password` on the ByteHouse [login page](🔗).

### Step 2. Create objects in ByteHouse

Note: Before proceeding, check that the `AccountAdmin` role is selected by clicking the avatar icon.

A database and a table are required before you can load data. In addition, loading and querying data requires a virtual warehouse, which provides the necessary compute resources to perform these tasks.

• **Create a virtual warehouse**

On the **Virtual Warehouses** page, choose [New] to create a new virtual warehouse, with the name and size as shown, then choose [OK] to finish creation.

• **Create a database**

On the **Databases** page, choose [New Database] to create a `bh_test_${yourname}` database using the web UI, then choose [Create].

Alternatively, you can use `CREATE DATABASE` command in the SQL worksheet to create a database. Choose a running virtual warehouse before executing the following SQL query statement.

• **Create a table**

On the **SQL Worksheet** page, create a table named `employment` in `bh_demo` using the `CREATE TABLE` command.

After creation, you can see the details of the table in the database module.

Note: The number of columns in the table and their data types correspond to the fields in the sample CSV data files that you will be loading in the next step.

Alternatively, you can choose the [Table] button to create the table directly via web UI on the **Databases** page:

### Step 3. Load data into the target table

#### Ad hoc job

[Download `employees.csv`](🔗). On the **Data Loading** page, choose [New Loading Job].

First, input the job name as `bh_demo_adhoc` (Note: no space is allowed and no duplicates of Job Names).

Next, choose Type: [file], and upload or drag your local file into the file upload box. Select Has header: [Yes] option.

After selecting the target database and table, choose [Re-Parser] to map the Source Column Name with the Source Schema.

Note: The **Column Name** and **Type** should match with the **Target Table** created in Step 2.

Select Loading Type: [Full Data Replacement] and complete the job creation by choosing [Create].

You will be redirected to the **Data Loading** page where you can see the running status.

After the status is updated to `success`, you can check the data loading result on the table detail page.

#### Connect new data source

You could also load data by connecting data sources. Go to Select Data Source section and choose the type of data source you'd like to use. You can choose [Connect a new datasource] to enter the data source. For more details, please refer to [Data Import](🔗).

### Step 4. Query the loaded data

On the **SQL Worksheet** page, run the following SQL statements to query the loaded data.

Ensure you've selected a running virtual warehouse before executing the SQL statement.

• Query all data

• Insert additional rows of data

• Query rows based on email addresses