Analytics Environment Resources

In the Analytics Environment, there are two types of data storage resources available:

Cloud data warehouse databases (BigQuery datasets)
Cloud object storage buckets (GCS buckets)

BigQuery Datasets

Your BigQuery instance comes with predefined datasets (within the Resources area on the left) that can be used to store different types of data, depending on your user persona:

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In your BigQuery instance, the names for these datasets start with your account name and end with the suffixes shown below (for example, "<organization_name>_wh").

Suffix	Access Type	Description	Data Scientists	Data Analysts
_ai	Read, write	Holds input and output tables used in machine learning (ML) models (analytics insights)	Yes	No
_pub	Read, write	Holds tables that need to be published to Tableau (if "<`organization_name`>_pub_rp" dataset is not enabled) and the GCS bucket (if "<`organization_name`>_pub_gcs" dataset is not enabled) or marked for granting permissions	Yes	No
_pub_gcs	Read, write	If enabled, holds tables that need to be published to the GCS bucket. Contact your LiveRamp administrator to enable this dataset.	Yes	No
_pub_rp	Read, write	If enabled, holds tables that need to be published to Tableau. Contact your LiveRamp administrator to enable this dataset.	Yes	No
_rdm	Read-only	For tenants with retail data, holds sales transaction data (retail data model)	Yes	No
_rp	Read-only	Holds tables to use for creating Tableau reports	No	Yes
_sg	Read, write	Holds segment tables to send to Customer Profiles for Data Collaboration or directly to a destination	Yes	No
_sub	Read-only	Holds permissioned views from a primary tenant to a partner tenant (subtenant)	Yes	No
_wh	Read-only	Holds warehouse tables that store your ingested data	Yes	No
_work	Read, write	Holds tables as a workspace for use by your organization (not shared with other tenants) By default, there is no expiration policy for tables in this dataset.	Yes	No

Customer Profiles Segment Data

The following tables in the _wh (warehouse) dataset store your ingested data:

customer_profiles_segments: Contains the segment data (members) that were sent to Analytics Environment from Customer Profiles for Data Collaboration. Use this table to perform campaign measurements and develop insights.
customer_profiles_segment_reference: Contains metadata from distributed segments that are automatically sent to Analytics Environment, including name, counts, destinations distributed, and timestamps.

customer_profiles_segments table:

Column Name	Data Type	Description
distributed_timestamp	timestamp	The distribution date, which depends on the mode: Incremental Append mode: The time of the first distribution Full Append mode: The actual distribution time For information about these modes, see "Distribute to Analytics Environment."
segment_name	string	The name of the segment
test_flag	Boolean	Indicates whether a RampID is in the segment's test group (True) or its control group (False)
user_id	string	The RampID associated with the record in the segment

customer_profiles_segment_reference table:

Column name	Data Type	Description
alwayson_enabled	Boolean	True: The distribution will be continually updated (Always On) False: The distribution will not be continually updated
append_mode	integer	1: Full Append mode 0: Incremental Append mode
count	integer	The count of the segment RampIDs
destination_name	string	The destination name. If there are multiple destinations in the distribution, multiple records are created.
distributed_timestamp	timestamp	The distribution date
segment_id	string	The unique ID of the segment
segment_name	string	The name of the segment

Destination Tables

If your Analytics Environment tenant has been configured to support delivering simple segment tables directly to a destination platform, the following tables will be available in your _wh (warehouse) dataset in BigQuery.

The following tables in the _wh (warehouse) dataset store data about your destination accounts and distributions:

da_reference: This table includes your allow list of destination accounts that have been implemented in Customer Profiles. For information, see The Destinations Page.
syndicate_destination_result: This table stores the status of any distributions to a destination platform. If it does not yet exist, it will be created once your first distribution directly from Analytics Environment is complete. You can query the data in this table if you want to check the status of your distribution.

da_reference table:

Column Name

Data Type

Description

da_id

integer

The unique ID of the destination account

Example: 3557

da_name

string

The value of the destination account's "Destination Name"

Example: TTD

syndicate_destination_result table:

Column Name	Data Type	Description
da_id	integer	The unique ID of the destination account Example: 3557
da_name	string	The value of the destination account's "Destination Name" Example: TTD
end_time	timestamp	The end date set for the distribution Example: 2023-12-07 17:31:00
start_time	timestamp	The start date set for the distribution Example: 2023-09-07 15:26:21
status	string	The status of the distribution, which can be either SUCCESS or FAIL
Table_Name	string	The name of the simple segment table that was sent to the distribution account Example: cereal_campaign_converter

GCS Buckets

In addition to BigQuery datasets, data scientists can use the following GCS buckets for storing data and code:

_CODEREPO (read, write): Store code artifacts for submitting a non-interactive job to the Analytics Environment Spark cluster.
_WORK (read, write): Store files processed by the Spark cluster (a sandbox).

Use Logs Explorer in the Google Cloud Console

Users with the "LSH Data Scientist" persona can use the logs explorer in the Google Cloud console to view log details for their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources, including:

BigQuery
Google Cloud Storage (GCS) buckets
Cloud Dataproc Clusters

Note

Currently, you can only view the logs. Some features are not yet available, for example, create metric and create alert.

Procedure. To use the logs explorer in the Google Cloud console:

From the Analytics Environment virtual machine desktop landing page, click the Google BigQuery tile.
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If your account has access to more than one tenant, choose the tile for the desired tenant account.
From the BigQuery console, open the Project drop-down list and select the appropriate organization and project.
Search for "logs explorer" and then click Logs explorer.
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Pin this menu for future reference.