Tableau virtual connections
Prior to the Tableau 2021.4 release, data model creation started with a direct connection to the underlying data source. This meant that data modelers would most often connect directly to enterprise database tables in their organization. This approach works well when the data modeler understands databases, but it falls short in several important ways, especially when the organization wants to delegate the role of data modeling to less technical users in the business.
If the organization is going to delegate data model creation to business users, the information technology, data engineering, and security teams will often want to ensure that the data modeler:
- Cannot have access to all the data in the database for confidentiality reasons
- Limits access to the number of tables in the database
- Ensures that analytics are not run against live tables, that is, ensures that data is extracted to an analytics store so impacting performance of the...