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September 9, 2026 · Vistelio
One Looker project per business unit is fine until every project re-defines the same date logic, the same brand labels, and the same customer view. This tutorial shows how to use manifest.lkml, local and remote project imports, and LookML constants to build a shared core project that other projects consume like a library.
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Gemini, Conversational Analytics and MCP agents all read your LookML. This tutorial covers the metadata work that decides whether they pick the right fields: pruning the exposed surface, labels, descriptions that carry the business rule, tags as synonyms, filter-value hygiene, agent context in Git, and how to measure whether any of it worked.
Read moreSeptember 9, 2026 · Vistelio
How to expose governed LookML metrics to notebooks, pipelines, and third-party tools over JDBC — enabling the Open SQL Interface, writing queries against Explores, and locking down access before you announce it.
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Schedules, conditional schedules, and alerts do different jobs. A practical guide to Looker delivery: datagroup-triggered schedules, alert thresholds that survive holidays and partial loads, custom action servers for write-back, and auditing the whole estate with System Activity and the API.
Read moreSeptember 9, 2026 · Vistelio
A practical tutorial on join fanout in Looker: how one_to_many joins inflate measures, how symmetric aggregates protect you, exactly where that protection stops, and how to design explores, primary keys, and data tests so your totals reconcile.
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