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 | Set User Agent | [source code](https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery/blob/main/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SetUserAgent.java) | [![Open in Cloud Shell][shell_img]](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/open?git_repo=https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery&page=editor&open_in_editor=samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SetUserAgent.java) |
 | Simple App | [source code](https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery/blob/main/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleApp.java) | [![Open in Cloud Shell][shell_img]](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/open?git_repo=https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery&page=editor&open_in_editor=samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleApp.java) |
 | Simple Query | [source code](https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery/blob/main/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleQuery.java) | [![Open in Cloud Shell][shell_img]](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/open?git_repo=https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery&page=editor&open_in_editor=samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleQuery.java) |
+| Simple Query Connection Read Api | [source code](https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery/blob/main/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleQueryConnectionReadApi.java) | [![Open in Cloud Shell][shell_img]](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/open?git_repo=https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery&page=editor&open_in_editor=samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleQueryConnectionReadApi.java) |
 | Table Exists | [source code](https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery/blob/main/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/TableExists.java) | [![Open in Cloud Shell][shell_img]](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/open?git_repo=https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery&page=editor&open_in_editor=samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/TableExists.java) |
 | Table Insert Rows | [source code](https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery/blob/main/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/TableInsertRows.java) | [![Open in Cloud Shell][shell_img]](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/open?git_repo=https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery&page=editor&open_in_editor=samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/TableInsertRows.java) |
 | Table Insert Rows Without Row Ids | [source code](https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery/blob/main/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/TableInsertRowsWithoutRowIds.java) | [![Open in Cloud Shell][shell_img]](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/open?git_repo=https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigquery&page=editor&open_in_editor=samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/TableInsertRowsWithoutRowIds.java) |
diff --git a/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleQueryConnectionReadApi.java b/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleQueryConnectionReadApi.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2024 Google LLC
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+package com.example.bigquery;
+
+// [START bigquery_simple_query_connection_read_api]
+
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryResult;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.Connection;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.ConnectionSettings;
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+
+public class SimpleQueryConnectionReadApi {
+
+  public static void main(String[] args) {
+    String query =
+        "SELECT corpus, count(*) as corpus_count "
+            + "FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.shakespeare` GROUP BY corpus;";
+    simpleQueryConnectionReadApi(query);
+  }
+
+  public static void simpleQueryConnectionReadApi(String query) {
+
+    try {
+      // Initialize client and create a Connection session.
+      BigQuery bigquery = BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();
+      ConnectionSettings connectionSettings =
+          ConnectionSettings.newBuilder()
+              .setRequestTimeout(10L)
+              .setMaxResults(100L)
+              .setUseQueryCache(true)
+              .build();
+      Connection connection = bigquery.createConnection(connectionSettings);
+
+      // Execute the query using the Connection session.
+      BigQueryResult bigQueryResult = connection.executeSelect(query);
+      ResultSet resultSet = bigQueryResult.getResultSet();
+
+      while (resultSet.next()) {
+        System.out.print("corpus:" + resultSet.getString("corpus"));
+        System.out.print(", count:" + resultSet.getLong("corpus_count"));
+        System.out.println();
+      }
+      System.out.println("Query ran successfully");
+    } catch (SQLException e) {
+      System.out.println("Query did not run \n" + e.toString());
+    }
+  }
+}
+// [END bigquery_simple_query_connection_read_api]
diff --git a/samples/snippets/src/test/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleQueryConnectionReadApiIT.java b/samples/snippets/src/test/java/com/example/bigquery/SimpleQueryConnectionReadApiIT.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2024 Google LLC
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+package com.example.bigquery;
+
+import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintStream;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class SimpleQueryConnectionReadApiIT {
+
+  private final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass().getName());
+  private ByteArrayOutputStream bout;
+  private PrintStream out;
+  private PrintStream originalPrintStream;
+
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() {
+    bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+    out = new PrintStream(bout);
+    originalPrintStream = System.out;
+    System.setOut(out);
+  }
+
+  @After
+  public void tearDown() {
+    // restores print statements in the original method
+    System.out.flush();
+    System.setOut(originalPrintStream);
+    log.log(Level.INFO, "\n" + bout.toString());
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSimpleQueryConnectionReadApi() {
+    String query =
+        "SELECT corpus, count(*) as corpus_count "
+            + "FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.shakespeare` GROUP BY corpus;";
+
+    SimpleQueryConnectionReadApi.simpleQueryConnectionReadApi(query);
+    assertThat(bout.toString()).contains("Query ran successfully");
+  }
+}