What is a PDT?

[adina_katz]

Knowledge Drop

Last tested: May 26, 2020
 

A Persistent Derived Table is a table that is defined in LookML and is by built by Looker on a user's database.

Looker uses a CREATE TABLE in SQL and persists the tables built on the database scratch schema, maintaining them (dropping and rebuilding) according to the type of persistence that is used.

This content is subject to limited support.