[nfbcs] Basic Information regarding Tableau and SQL

[David Andrews]

Thanks for the correction. For some reason I 
thought Tableau was from Microsoft.

Dave

At 10:13 PM 9/3/2018, you wrote:
>Tableau is not a Microsoft product. As far as I 
>know, Tableau Software is still a publicly 
>traded company, which has not yet been acquired 
>by Microsoft. Microsoft's business intelligence 
>product is called Power BI. I think this has 
>already been mentioned, but SQL is the 
>Structured Query Language used to work with 
>relational databases. This includes Oracle, DB2, 
>Sybase, Informix and SQL Server. On 09/03/2018 
>06:30 PM, David Andrews via nfbcs wrote: > I am 
>not a computer science person, but have some 
>technical > knowledge.  I would say SQL is a 
>database format, there are a number > of SQL 
>database systems, the most well known of which 
>is probably > Microsoft Sequel Server. I think 
>Robert said it is a language used to > query 
>databases to get answers, reports etc. There are 
>graphical tools > to do this, or command line 
>stuff, and in between I think. > > Tableau is a 
>Microsoft program. It is used to represent data, 
>charts, > tables, etc. graphically.  I don't 
>know how accessible the tool itself > is. The 
>output can be accessible, but often isn't. It 
>depends on the > version of Tableau you use etc. 
>The free community version doesn't > produce 
>accessible output, you have to use the server 
>edition, as I > understand it. > > Working with 
>Tableau may be possible, but I think it will 
>initially be > a tough road to hoe! > > Dave > > 
>At 12:15 PM 9/3/2018, you wrote: >> Hello: >> >> 
>The subject summarizes my question. I've heard 
>of the above programs, >> but don't really 
>understand exactly what they do. I believe 
>they >> interact with databases somehow. I am 
>considering applying for a job >> that would 
>require me to learn these programs. Any 
>information >> appreciated. >> >> -- >> Leslie 
>Fairall >> mailto:fairall at shellworld.net > > >