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00:00Alright, let's begin by talking about the data connection types found inside Tableau Prep.
00:05Tableau Prep Builder enables users to connect to many data sources and platforms,
00:10including flap files, servers, and published data sources.
00:16Now these can be anything ranging from Excel files, CSV files, access databases,
00:21to SQL servers, Salesforce, Hadoop, Snowflake, and even published data sources
00:27like Tableau Server and Tableau Online.
00:30This allows for almost limitless possibilities for ingesting data from various data sources inside Tableau Prep.
00:37In particular, the published data source options opens up a lot of different possibilities
00:42that weren't available prior to the development of Tableau Prep.
00:45For example, if you don't have local credentials to a database,
00:49but you do have access to a published Tableau data source,
00:53you can use that published Tableau data source as an input to your flow.
00:58Now with tools like Tableau Desktop, you can obviously connect to data sources that are published
01:02and build dashboards off of them.
01:04But never before have you been able to connect to a Tableau data source
01:08that's published on a server or on Tableau Online and use that as an input,
01:12the start of your data preparation flow.
01:15This opens up a whole range of possibilities, especially for those sources that you would normally dump
01:20to a flat file before modifying, or simply those that you don't have access directly to the database.
01:26Up next, we're going to dive deeper into data connection examples,
01:30and we'll start building out the first part of our main flow.