Connecting to the Tableau data server
Typically, Tableau Server and Cloud are thought of as servers that provide web interfaces to create, share, and manage data analytics, typically in the form of dashboards. Tableau Server and Cloud also provide other capabilities including acting as a data server.
Tableau has two data server features. The first of these features is only available with the Data Management licensing and is called virtual connections. Virtual connections aren’t data models but a method of accessing a database through Tableau Server and Cloud. We explored virtual connections in Chapter 2.
The more common feature is the published data source feature. Published data sources are the best practice for sharing data models with others in your organization. We will be looking at extending the metadata of published data sources in Chapter 10. We also created our first published data source from Tableau Prep Builder in the previous chapter, Chapter 6. Let’...
