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Fast and Furious release of tools for the Tableau Community – check these out

Ah, Tableau Conference season – the time of year when everyone releases some amazing tools which are then featured during the conference. Here are 3 that have recently been made available....

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Russell’s Rules For Using TabJolt against Tableau Server

With a new release of TabJolt hitting github and several TabJolt-related sessions about to kick off at TC16, I have TabJolt on the brain. While TabJolt is incredibly easy to use compared to “high end”...

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Testing the new AWS EC R4 instance with Tableau Server

AWS released the new R4 instance type in late November, so you know I’ve got to test it with Tableau Server just as soon as I possibly can. For me, that’s after re:Invent. The new R4 features 2.3 GHZ...

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Road Rules for Tableau and Redshift – Part 2: Logging

Part 1 is here Before you do anything else, you need to know what the current state of your Tableau – Redshift relationship is vis-à-vis performance. You also need to be able to track whether changes...

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Tableau Server Caching: What exactly does “Refresh Less Often” mean?

tl;dr: Tableau Server’s Refresh Less Often setting means 12 hours. The details Tableau Server help has the following to say about Refresh Less Often: Refresh Less Often—Data is cached and reused...

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Road Rules for Tableau and Redshift – Part 3: Top Ten Things You Must Do.

Holiday time is the most wonderful time of the year because I get to blog. A Lot. What better way to spend New Year’s day than banging out a really long post and making copious use of goofy clipart?...

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How to force Tableau to use Redshift’s Server Cert for SSL Validation

A customer wanted to know how to do this today, and I wondered to myself, “Self, could we accomplish this via a TDC?” However, before I could even think of trying it out, wunderkind (which means...

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See Tableau, Amazon Redshift, and RDS doing beautiful things together

A few weeks ago, the AWS and Tableau teams released a new Quick Start: Modern Data Warehouse on AWS. We wanted to make it easy to deploy a validated data architecture that uses the services in...

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Tableau Replayer: Another Tool for your Tableau Server Toolkit

I normally rip stuff apart and play with it for a long time before posting. Not this time. If you haven’t already heard about this, start working with it now! Tableau Replayer allows you to play back...

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Want to know how #Tableau Online works? Watch.

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