Addressing Excel's row limitation

As mentioned in the section Tableau and Big Data, exceeding Excel's row limitation should not be considered big data. Nevertheless, that limitation can be an issue, and telling a Tableau author to use a database is often not helpful. A Tableau author may indeed want to utilize a database but may not have direct access. For example, the data that resides in the database may be exported through a web application and then imported into an Excel workbook that Tableau utilizes as a data source. If this process is performed weekly or monthly and each import involves 10,000+ rows, it won't be long before the Excel row limit is hit. In the next exercise, we will see one strategy for addressing this issue.

Exercise: Excel's row limitation...