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- Tableau: The following objects expose data and calculations/calculated data to Tableau proper, allowing them to be used as either primary or supplementary data-sources to other projects
- Packaged workbooks (twbx tde & hyper - v10.5+)
- Published data-sources
- Tableau: Export to CSV - Packages all the data and results of materialised calculations as static data and saves as a csv.
- PowerBI - linked to an Excel workbook
- Business Objects universe
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With an execution plan of:
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Both versions are returning 152 rows but, the additional text in the with calculation mode has inflated each row by and additional 59 bytes or 67% more so the amount of data needed to travel over the network pipe will be 22,192 bytes (21.67 KB) rather than 13,224 (12.9 KB). So, a small piece of of avoidable text has inflated the amount of data travelling over the network by 11KB and this is for just 152 rows of a 9,000 row data-set, scale this up to the millions, billions and in the case of big-data trillions and beyond, and this will really begin to take hold.
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