Saturday, August 1, 2015

Difference between Data Blending and Data Join




Joining is where you are able to combine data from the SAME data source, for example worksheets in an Excel file or tables in an Oracle database.  You need a common field, also called a key, that tells Tableau how to join the data.  You also need a key to do blending.


Blending is where you able to combine data from DIFFERENT data sources, for example a worksheet in Excel with a table from an Oracle database.  This is very powerful because in the past you would typically need to have someone with the specific technical skills create a new data set with the combined information.

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