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.
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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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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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Rebuilding a three-year PDT every night to add one day of data is a warehouse bill you do not need to pay. This tutorial covers incremental PDTs end to end: choosing an increment_key, sizing increment_offset for late-arriving data, partitioning so the increment is actually cheap, verifying the build SQL, and the failure modes that quietly produce wrong numbers.
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