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Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook

You're reading from   Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook Create BI solutions and data applications to explore and share insights in real time

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560956
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Looker 2. Chapter 2: Configuring Views and Models in a LookML Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Working with Data in Explores 4. Chapter 4: Customizing and Serving Dashboards 5. Chapter 5: Making Dashboards Interactive through Dynamic Elements 6. Chapter 6: Troubleshooting Looker 7. Chapter 7: Integrating Looker with Other Applications 8. Chapter 8: Organizing the Looker Environment 9. Chapter 9: Administering and Monitoring Looker 10. Chapter 10: Preparing to Develop Looker Applications 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Troubleshooting SQL through SQL Runner

SQL Runner is a way to debug your SQL-based Looker issues that cannot be verified by LookML and the Content Validator.

SQL Runner in Looker grants direct access to your database or data warehouse connected to Looker, enabling a range of data exploration and management capabilities. With SQL Runner, you can browse schema tables, construct Explores from SQL queries, execute predefined descriptive queries, access SQL Runner history, download query results, share queries, incorporate them into LookML projects as derived tables, and perform various other useful tasks.

Getting ready

In this section, we will mostly use LookML, Explore, and SQL Runner interfaces. You can open Users Explore in one tab and have the LookML project open in another browser tab.

How to do it...

As a debugging tool, SQL Runner can be accessed in two ways and usually for two principal reasons:

  1. In Explore, if you obtain a result that does not seem correct...
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