Nitro Explorer Components

Nitro Explorer includes the following components:

• Databases - A database represents a connection to a Nitro instance. Databases are user-specific.Datasets created on user-specific databases cannot be accessed by anyone other than the creator. For example, production_v::modifyall<username>__v is a user-specific database, therefore all datasets created on it are private datasets.

  Note: Charts and datasets generated from a common database, for example production__v::role__v, are hidden from Nitro Explorer. To make these charts and datasets visible for report creators, Nitro admins must assign users a custom role.

• Datasets - A dataset represents a table data source in Nitro used as the basis for charts and dashboards. Datasets can be created on a shared or user-specific database. There are two types.
• Virtual Dataset - Tables are based on SQL queries created using Nitro Explorer’s SQL Lab
• Physical Dataset - Tables are directly sourced from a physical table in the Nitro database
• Charts - Charts are the visual representation of a dataset.
• Dashboards - Dashboards can be enabled to display a static data set, or a dynamic dataset that is refreshed on a configurable time interval.
• SQL Lab - Integrated SQL query tool for Nitro. Allows analysts/scientists to run queries against Nitro data, view sample results, download results, and quickly build a virtual Dataset for use in chart visualizations.