CData Tableau Connector for SAS Data Sets

Overview

The CData Tableau Connector for SAS Data Sets offers self-service integration with Tableau. The connector facilitates live access to SAS Data Sets data in Tableau using the connection window. The connector also provides direct querying to visualize and analyze SAS Data Sets data.

The connector supports Tableau Desktop 2020.1 or later and Tableau Prep 2020.4.1 or later. For older versions of Tableau, the CData ODBC Driver for SAS Data Sets or the CData JDBC Driver for SAS Data Sets can serve as an alternative means of connecting to SAS Data Sets data in Tableau.

Getting Started

See Getting Started for a guide to create a SAS Data Sets Data Source in Tableau. The guide will walk you through Installing the Connector and then Configuring a Connection via the connection builder.

Once a connection has been configured, see Getting Data to set up a data source that offers live connectivity to SAS Data Sets.

Advanced Features

Advanced Features details additional features supported by the connector, such as defining user defined views, ssl configuration, remoting, caching, firewall/proxy settings, and advanced logging.

Using the Connector

See Using the Connector to customize data access and visualize data. You can further customize the exact SAS Data Sets data pulled by Using Custom SQL Queries.

Refer to Visualizing Data to create and work with Tableau visualizations.

See User Defined Views to construct virtual tables whose contents are determined by a pre-configured query, which will then be discovered among existing table metadata.

Data Model

See Data Model for information on the available database objects and how to use SQL to work with SAS Data Sets APIs. This section provides more detailed information on querying specific SAS Data Sets entities.

Connection String Options

The Connection properties describe the various options that can be used to establish a connection.