Associate Data Practitioner

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QuestionQ16

Data Management

You are a Looker analyst who needs to add a new field to a Looker report that generates SQL to run against your company’s database. You do not have the Develop permission. What should you do?

Explanation

Looker custom fields can be created ad hoc from the field picker without Develop permission (subject to the create_custom_fields permission), and they generate SQL that runs against the database. Table calculations instead operate on data after it has been retrieved.

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