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Refresh a Data Source and deal with changes

Data lives and changes. Any analysis tool, such as Tableau, needs to allow users to refresh data and deal with changes as easily as possible.

In this section, we won't talk about the published Data Source on Tableau Server. The way to refresh or modifying a published Data Source is different and explained in Chapter 9, Publish and Interact in Tableau Server.

The following section describes how to refresh a Data Source.

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