Tableau Hyper Writer

About Tableau

Tableau is a business intelligence software that allows anyone to connect to data in a few clicks, then visualize and create interactive, shareable dashboards with a few more. It’s easy enough that any Excel user can learn it, but powerful enough to satisfy even the most complex analytical problems. Securely sharing your findings with others only takes seconds.

The result is BI software that you can trust to actually deliver answers to the people that need them.

http://www.tableausoftware.com/business-intelligence

What’s Hyper?

Under the hood, Hyper is the technology that now powers Tableau’s data engine. The data engine is what handles opening, creating, refreshing, and querying your extracts.

https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2018/1/extracts-hyper-speed-what-you-need-know-79397

More information about tableau field types

https://tableau.github.io/hyper-db/docs/guides/

Adding data to an existing hyper table

To add data open writer properties dialogue and select an existing table from the drop-down box

Creating new hyper table

Open writer properties dialogue and enter new table name.

Define Table structure

Run Transformation and check that table was created

Running SQL against hyper database

It is possible to run SQL before and after loading the data.

Video Tutorials