By: Eric Parker
Eric Parker lives in Seattle and has been teaching Tableau and Alteryx since 2014. He's helped thousands of students solve their most pressing problems. If you have a question, feel free to reach out to him directly via email. You can follow him on LinkedIn or sign up for a Tableau Office Hour to work with him directly!
Are your Tableau extracts taking too long to generate? Are you getting asked interview questions about the process behind creating, publishing and updating an empty extract in Tableau? We've got you covered!
Check out this video to learn about an old-school method for quickly creating an extract on your desktop, publishing that extract to Tableau Cloud/Server and then updating the data once it is online.
Need help with Tableau? Sign up for an office hour to work with Eric! You can also check out our upcoming classes for a Tableau deep dive!
Related Resources
Want to keep learning foundational skills in Tableau? Sign up for our weekly newsletter so you never miss new blog posts, videos and events!