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Tableau 2019.x Cookbook

You're reading from   Tableau 2019.x Cookbook Over 115 recipes to build end-to-end analytical solutions using Tableau

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533385
Length 670 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tania Lincoln Tania Lincoln
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Slaven Bogdanovic Slaven Bogdanovic
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Teodora Matic Teodora Matic
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Rintaro Sugimura Rintaro Sugimura
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Tableau Software 2. Data Manipulation FREE CHAPTER 3. Tableau Extracts 4. Tableau Desktop Advanced Calculations 5. Tableau Desktop Advanced Filtering 6. Building Dashboards 7. Telling a Story with Tableau 8. Tableau Visualization 9. Tableau Advanced Visualization 10. Tableau for Big Data 11. Forecasting with Tableau 12. Advanced Analytics with Tableau 13. Deploy Tableau Server 14. Tableau Troubleshooting 15. Preparing Data for Analysis with Tableau Prep 16. ETL Best Practices for Tableau 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Connecting Redshift with Tableau

This is the main part of this chapter. We are going to connect our huge sample dataset with Tableau Desktop. Moreover, we will tune Redshift to get the best possible performance from Tableau.

How to do it...

During this part of this chapter, we will measure our performance based on the following three metrics:

  • Load time
  • Storage use
  • Query performance

Let's see how it is done by performing the following steps:

  1. Open Tableau Desktop and click on Connect to Amazon Redshift. Fill in the credentials and click on Sign In:

Basically, we have now connected to Amazon Redshift. If you get an error, you should check your Firewall settings and make sure that you can connect with a SQL client to...

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