Use Tableau Published Data Sets to Improve Server Performance
Let’s imagine your team of data analysts has been assigned to create a suite of dashboards with information about your company’s sales, profit, customers, and more. The workbooks used to create these dashboards will all source from the same set of data but pull different information based on the users utilizing the reports.
This happens regularly in business where different divisions of the company need different information. One segment of the organization has report writers who pull data and make dashboards with information specific to them. At the same time, another segment of the organization makes slightly different charts and dashboards; however, they still use the same base data source. Multiply this by the number of segments in the organization and you end up with multiple workbooks on your Tableau Server, each with their own published data that needs to be refreshed.
Each of these workbooks needs to pull fresh data independently, regardless of the fact that all are using the same base data source.
Figure 1. The reports require 1 connection each and refresh independently
Published data sources condense this data pull by having one source of data on Tableau Server that feeds all of the dependent reports. The workbooks can still filter the ...
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