Tableau Fundas – Query Languages

Tableau has the capability to work with live data connection and also it can extract data locally (TDE).

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Mentioned below are the languages used among Analyst, Tableau and Data Sources in Tableau world.

VizQL – Analyst Interactions are taken and converted into Optimized Data Source Queries.

SQL/MDX – Queries to fetch data from DB and Cubes.

TQL – Tableau Query Language to fetch data from Tableau Extract (TDE).

Result: Aggregated Results from Data Source; Tableau paints it to make easily digestible and beautiful visualizations.

What is Tableau Desktop? or Which software I need to use for Tableau application development?

Tableau Desktop is tool used for developing Tableau applications. It comes in three different versions, below table contains feature comparison of those. Though these details are directly taken from Tableau portal, for some reason I felt that it should be there in my portal.

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