Using Views Explorer

Views Explorer is a data sculpting tool that creates non-materialized, in-cache views of your datasets. Views are useful when you want to reduce the columns users might see or create non-materialized data aggregates or mashups. Views are dataset definitions and once saved, they can be viewed in the dataset catalog. Views can be created by choosing the Views Explorer option on the dataset detail page under the Open With feature. Views live in the Adrenaline cache, so they are in-memory fast.

Next, let's take a tour of Views Explorer.

Touring the Views Explorer page

Before we proceed, let's get oriented with the features of the Views Explorer page, as seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.2 – The Views Explorer page's features

Let's look at the features that are available on the Views Explorer page:

• View Name: Enables you to name and change the name of the view. This name is what will...