Performance

Performance Recording

Tableau provide a performance review by producing a detail breakdown of the timing by the use of a dashboard.

  1. Go to Help > Settings Performance > Start Performance Recording
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  1. Do something, change a parameter, do a quick filter, etc.
  2. Go to the same place and Stop Performance Recording
  3. A new Tableau worksheet will pop-up with the timing of each execution internal function.

Performance Tuning

Extract

Custom SQL vs Field Calculation

Parameters

Quick Filters

Resources

  • Designing Efficient Workbooks (Tableau Whitepaper) pdf1
  • Optimize Workbook Performance. link1