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Metabase Up and Running

You're reading from   Metabase Up and Running Introduce business intelligence and analytics to your company and make better business decisions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202313
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tim Abraham Tim Abraham
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Installing and Deploying Metabase
2. Chapter 1: Overview of Metabase FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Deploying Metabase with AWS 4. Section 2: Setting Up Your Instance and Asking Questions of Your Data
5. Chapter 3: Setting Up Metabase 6. Chapter 4: Connecting to Databases 7. Chapter 5: Building Your Data Model 8. Chapter 6: Creating Questions 9. Chapter 7: Creating Visualizations 10. Chapter 8: Creating Dashboards, Pulses, and Collections 11. Chapter 9: Using the SQL Console 12. Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features
13. Chapter 10: Advanced Features, Getting Help, and Contributing 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4: Connecting to Databases

In this chapter, we will finally connect a database to Metabase and start exploring data. This chapter is all about databases. Metabase is designed to connect to most of today's most popular relational, NoSQL, and analytical databases, and we will learn a little about each one.

We will also learn how to launch our own PostgreSQL database and load it with the sample data we will be exploring throughout the rest of the book. In addition to preparing us with a dataset to use in future chapters, this chapter is intended to help you learn the best practices when working with databases.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • What is a database?
  • Creating a PostgreSQL database in AWS
  • Connecting to our PostgreSQL database in Metabase
  • Connecting to a database with best practices
  • Connecting to other types of databases in Metabase
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