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Using virtual connections: Introduction and setup

Using virtual connections: Introduction and setup

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Using virtual connections: Introduction and setup

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- [Instructor] Okay, for this next lesson, we're going to cover something relatively new to Tableau, which is something called a virtual connection. If we go to our project that we created earlier on called "LinkedIn Learning" and we go to this dropdown and select New, you'll see that there's this ability to create a virtual connection. If we go ahead and click on that, we are taken into this new setup, and it asks us to essentially create a connection to a database. In our instance, of course, it's going to be Snowflake. But before we do that, I just want to set some context and make sure that you can follow along. So before we follow through, I'm just going to go ahead and close this, and we're going to go back. And we're actually going to go to Snowflake, and we're going to run some SQL that you can find in the resources of this particular course. Now, what this SQL does is it essentially creates the demo DB if you haven't already dropped it from the previous lesson. It then goes…

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