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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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Dmitry Anoshin Dmitry Anoshin
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Dmitrii Shirokov Dmitrii Shirokov
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Tableau Software FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Manipulation 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

Introduction

Let's understand this situation better through the following example. In one of our projects, a customer had a Cloud Data Warehouse and uses Matillion to load it. The customer was using Tableau as a primary BI tool.

Let's look at the ideal ELT, which is shown in the following screenshot:

There are two individual processes here. The green one is Matillion, that is scheduled via Matillion Scheduler. The orange one is Tableau and it is scheduled via Tableau Server. Usually, we assume that ETL is done at 6 am and we scheduled Tableau extracts and dashboards a bit later. In our example, it is 7 am. In addition, we are using tabcmd and schedule Tableau Reports via Windows Task Scheduler.

As you might guess, the marketing data source isn't the most reliable. Let's consider a scenario, where SFTP was delayed files delivery.

As a result, the ELT job...

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