Chapter 1. Connecting to Data Sources
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Connecting to text files
- Connecting to Excel files
- Connecting to Access databases
- Connecting to a SQL Server
- Pasting from a clipboard
- Connecting to other databases
- Connecting to Windows Azure Marketplace
- Understanding dimensions and measures
- Changing data types
- Applying filters
- Merging multiple data sources
Introduction
This chapter will cover the basics to get Tableau connected with various data sources, such as text files, Excel/Access files, SQL Server, ODBC sources, and the clipboard. We will cover simplistic versions of data files, where data is clean and ready-to-use. This chapter also covers how to apply filters to reduce the available data for analysis as well ...
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