Creating a shared Cloudera Data Explorer (Hue) instance

To deploy Data Explorer at the environment level, you can create any number of Data Explorer instances. Each Data Explorer instance has its own database. The Data Explorer instances deployed at the environment level do not share query history or saved queries.

Log in to the Cloudera Data Warehouse service as a DWAdmin
Click the Shared Data Explorer Service option from the left navigation pane of the Cloudera Data Warehouse UI.
Create a shared Data Explorer instance by clicking ADD NEW on the Shared Data Explorer Service page. The Create Shared Data Explorer Service modal is displayed.
Specify a name for your Data Explorer instance and select an environment from the drop-down menu.
1. Select a size for the shared Data Explorer instance from the Size drop-down menu. This indicates the number of Data Explorer backend pods you want to create.
2. Select one of the following options from the Select the Data Explorer database initialization strategy drop-down menu to initialize a database for this Data Explorer instance.
  - Reuse if Data Explorer data is present: Select this option to use an existing Data Explorer database for your new shared Data Explorer instance.
  - Copy Virtual Warehouse database: Select this option to copy the contents of the Data Explorer database within a Database Catalog into the Shared Data Explorer Service database. This helps you to copy the shared queries and query history.
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    This is a one-time copy operation. After the data is copied from the Database Catalog to the shared Data Explorer database, the data between the two databases is not synchronized.
  - Flush the current database content: Select this option to create a new database for the shared Data Explorer instance. Select this option to recreate a Shared Data Explorer Service instance with the same name but a fresh database. The existing database linked to the Data Explorer instance is dropped. You can optionally specify user groups and tags in the same way you specify while creating a Virtual Warehouse for fine-grained access control.
Click Create.
A new shared Data Explorer service instance is created.

Click Editor to open Data Explorer. You can select the Virtual Warehouse you want to use from the Virtual Warehouse drop-down menu on the Data Explorer web interface.