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Automatic connection to Hive or Impala servers in Tableau


I was wondering if anyone managed to automatically connect to Hive(Hive2) or Impala servers? Currently I have to manually type all the info when I run a new Tableau session and it is a bit annoying.

Also I am using Cloudera ODBC drivers.

Cheers!


Solution

  • What I would do is: connect to the datasource in Tableau and then save the file (without creating any visualizations). Then whenever you want to create a visualization from your Hive data just open up that file and save it as a new name and create something.