A Tableau Consulting & SEO Consultancy Founder Family and tribe is everything! I ❤️ Whiteboarding and storytelling. https://dev3lop.com I send PMs to my network as we grow together mentoring in my free time Dec 8 How to Upgrade Tableau Server Steps and Best Practices A Way to Upgrade Tableau Server v8 through v10. Also, the method to Restore Tableau Server below. SCRUM/AGILE — Try not to become a proxy between the groups, and understand outage and impacts before diving into this process. Always have a scrum planning session with architects, product owners on the tech side, and the product owners for both the business and technology need to be present. It won’t hurt to whiteboard this process, discuss where backups will live while the installation/upgrade/restore is happening. If possible: When in doubt. Do a fresh installation on a fresh VM. Do this upgrade/restore on a test environment with your backups. Make s...
Tableau Desktop 10.5 Update is here at last! One major note we notice is that 10.5 and above will require 64bit operating systems. Guess what?! Tableau Desktop 10.5 Update is packed with a bunch of cool new connectors, an improved data engine, updated extract API to support the new extract format, visualizations in tooltips, and much more. Here are a few notes from Tableau’s site here . Be sure to upgrade and download the latest Tableau Desktop 10.5 update! If you need tableau help austin , we are here to help. Extracts use the new .hyper format Beginning with version 10.5, when you create an extract, it uses the new .hyper format. Extracts in this new format take advantage of the improved data engine, which supports the same analytical and query performance as the data engine before it, but for even larger extracts. Similarly, when you perform an extract task on a .tde extract using version 10.5, the extract is upgraded to a .hyper extract. For mo...