Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide
by Dmitry Anoshin, JC Gillet, Fabian Peri, Radhika Biyani, Gleb Makarenko
Blends
Like joins and unions, data blending allows you to work with data from different sources. Blends allow you to show data from two or more sources in the same view. The difference between a blend and a join is that when you blend, you are not combining data at the row level. A blend is a relationship. It allows data from different sources to be displayed in the same sheet. A data blend is primarily used when you need to show data from two different sources that are at a different grain.
When you connect to a database, Tableau automatically displays a blue checkmark next to the connection icon (see the following screenshot). The blue checkmark indicates that it is the primary, or first connected to, data source. After adding a second ...
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