What is an Instance Slug?
Knowledge DropLast tested: May 1, 2020 It's an identifier for an instance. Instance slug is the combination of...
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Which table does cached results get stored in the internal database?
Knowledge DropLast tested: May 14, 2020 Where can I find my cached results?Within every Looker directory there...
Error Starting Looker
Knowledge DropLast tested: Mar 18, 2019 2019-03-18 05:07:25.343 -0400 [ERROR|007d0|main] :: Error starting Loo...
Japanese character is garbled when we run the query
Knowledge DropLast tested: Oct 18, 2020The ProblemThere was an issue that the query which is filtered with Jap...
What JDBC driver does Looker use to connect to the internal database?
Knowledge DropLast tested: Mar 12, 2020For a HyperSQL backend, Looker uses the HyperSQL JDBC driver.For a MySQ...
Does running a query from cache produce a new History ID?
Knowledge DropLast tested: May 13, 2020 Yes.History view entries in system activity have a Result Source field...
Can you reference environmental variables in Looker DB credential files?
Knowledge DropLast tested: Feb 9, 2018 When creating the DB credentials file for a MySQL backend, you cannot r...
For self-hosted on GCP, can the internal database by CloudSQL?
Knowledge DropLast tested: Apr 10, 2020Yes, GCP CloudSQL's MySQL database can be used as Looker's internal dat...
Why do large HyperSQL internal dbs cause problems?
Knowledge DropLast tested: Feb 4, 2019HyperSQL is an in-memory database. That basically means it needs to be l...
What gets stored in the internal Looker application database?
Knowledge DropLast tested: Mar 5, 2020Essentially, everything about the Looker application! With one big excep...
Securing looker-db.yml
Knowledge DropLast tested: Oct 1, 2019 When moving a previously self-hosted instance to a MySQL backend, users...
