Resources concept guides

Learn about relevant features, functionality, and principles related to data sources.

Explanations of Retool concepts that provide greater understanding about how they work. These guides are not instructional by design and focus on providing context related features and functionality.

Intro to resources

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Access policies

Learn how access policies define table, column, and row-level data access for groups on a Retool resource.

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Data access enforcement

Learn what turning on data access enforcement changes, and how Retool evaluates access policies against each query.

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Authentication

Learn about supported authentication methods for resources.

Data protection

Learn about the best practices for storing data that's potentially sensitive.

AI models

Learn about AI providers, their models, and how they're configured with Retool.

Retool Database usage and limits

Learn about Retool Database usage and limits that apply to cloud-hosted organizations.

Data streaming

Learn about streaming data from resources in Retool.