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Advantages of Relationship

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Advantages to using relationships to combine tables:

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Make your data source easier to define, change, and reuse.
Make it easier to analyze data across multiple tables at the correct level of
detail (LOD).
Do not require the use of LOD expressions or LOD calculations for analysis at
different levels of detail.
Only query data from tables with fields used in the current viz.

Relationships
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*Are displayed as flexible noodles between logical tables
*Require you to select matching fields between two logical tables
*Do not require you to select join types
*Make all row and column data from related tables potentially available in the data
source
*Maintain each table's level of detail in the data source and during analysis
*Create independent domains at multiple levels of detail. Tables aren't merged
together in the data source.
*During analysis, create the appropriate joins automatically, based on the fields
in use.
*Do not duplicate aggregate values (when Performance Options are set to Many-to-
Many)
*Keep unmatched measure values (when Performance Options are set to Some Records
Match)

Joins
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Joins are a more static way to combine data. Joins must be defined between
physical tables up front, before analysis, and can’t be changed without impacting
all sheets using that data source. Joined tables are always merged into a
single table. As a result, sometimes joined data is missing unmatched values, or
duplicates aggregated values.

*Joins Are displayed with Venn diagram icons between physical tables
*Require you to select join types and join clauses
*Joined physical tables are merged into a single logical table with a fixed
combination of data
*May drop unmatched measure values
*May duplicate aggregate values when fields are at different levels of detail
*Support scenarios that require a single table of data, such as extract filters and
aggregation
Requirements

Requirements for using relationships


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When relating tables, the fields that define the relationships must have the
same data type. Changing the data type in the Data Source page does not change
this requirement. Tableau will still use the data type in the underlying database
for queries.
@You can't define relationships based on geographic fields.@
Circular relationships aren't supported in the data model.
You can't define relationships between published data sources.

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