Outputting our data models to database tables
The third and final output option is the option to output to a database table. If you want to leverage the enterprise security and scalability of a database server, this option provides you the ability to output your data to a single database table. This option may also make sense if you are consuming your data model in other analytics tools in addition to Tableau:
- To begin the process of a database table output, we are going back to our last step from the previous section, but we will change our Save output to option to Database table, as seen in Figure 6.8:
Figure 6.8 – Publishing to a database table
- We should now see our output pane change to Add a connection to a database server, as seen in Figure 6.9. The list of available database servers is always being updated. At the time of writing, the list of supported databases matches the list in Figure 6.9:
