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Russell Christopher

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The Tableau Repository

Agenda

• About the repository

• Connecting to the repository

• Unsupported but very interesting information

PostgreSQL

What is it?

Port 8060 on oneor more machines

Where is it?

• http://kb.tableausoftware.com/articles/knowledgebase/creating-custom-administrative-views

How do I connect to it?

Google:

“Creating Custom Admin Views Tableau”

to find...

• Tableau• PGAdmin3• Other

What can I connect to it with?

www.tableausoftware.com/drivers

Drivers?

• Original views (legacy)• hist_tables (new in v8)

The Tables

• Granted minimum permissions • Mostly can’t see underlying tables• Just not very much fun

The “Tableau” user

Legacy (“Original”) Views

• HTTP Requests• Sessions• Users• Views• Customized

Views• Data Sources

“Original” Views: What can you see?

• Workbooks• Data Sources• Background

Tasks• Projects• Sites• Tags

http_requests gets big!

Warning!

We truncate to 10 days of data upon backup or ziplogs

Warning!

Back this data up (extracts?) if you want > 10 days of history.

Warning!

“Views”

Demo

V8 “History” Tables

historical_event_types

PK type_id

name action_type

hist_tags

PK id

tag_id name

hist_groups

PK id

group_id name domain_name

historical_events

PK id

FK18 historical_event_type_id worker duration_in_ms is_failure details created_atFK2 hist_actor_user_idFK14 hist_target_user_idFK1 hist_actor_site_idFK13 hist_target_site_idFK10 hist_project_idFK17 hist_workbook_idFK16 hist_view_idFK7 hist_datasource_idFK4 hist_comment_idFK12 hist_tag_idFK8 hist_group_idFK9 hist_licensing_role_idFK11 hist_schedule_idFK15 hist_task_idFK6 hist_data_connection_idFK5 hist_config_idFK3 hist_capability_id

hist_tasks

PK id

task_id type priority

hist_licensing_roles

PK id

licensing_role_id name

hist_capabilities

PK id

capability_id name allow

hist_users

PK id

user_id name domain_name email system_user_id system_admin_levelFK1 hist_licensing_role_id site_admin_level publisher_tristate

hist_projects

PK id

project_id name

hist_comments

PK id

comment_id comment

hist_schedules

PK id

schedule_id name schedule_type priority scheduled_action is_serial day_of_week_mask day_of_month_mask start_at_minute minute_interval end_at_minute end_schedule_at

hist_configs

PK id

key value

hist_views

PK id

view_id name repository_url revision

hist_data_connections

PK id

data_connection_id server name dbname table_name

hist_workbooks

PK id

workbook_id name repository_url size revision

hist_datasources

PK id

datasource_id name repository_url size revision

hist_sites

PK id

site_id name url_namespace

• They are “real” tables• Complete with Referential Integrity

Constraints• Closely models “inaccessible” tables• Days to truncate is configurable• Implementation is not complete yet.

A work in progress

• Historical Events• Event Types• Capabilities• Groups• Data Sources• Data Connections• Views• Users• Licensing Roles

“History” Tables: What can you see?

• Schedules• Tasks• Configurations• Workbooks• Projects• Sites• Tags• Comments

* Red tables not yet populating with data

“History Tables”

Demo

• User interaction• Who ran report ‘x’?• When? • How long did it take?

Contrast: Legacy Views v. History Tables

Legacy Views: Examples

“Consumption-centric”

Scheduled Tasks• Who ran refresh

task?• Did it succeed or

fail?

Contrast: Legacy Views v. History Tables

Schedule creation• Who created a schedule?• Who added a task to it?Admin• Who created a new

project?• Who added user x to

group y?

History Tables: Examples

“Admin-ish”

Content creation• Who published a

workbook?• Who modified it?• Who changed the

connect string?• Who changed

permissions on it?

None of the following, repeat NONE

of it is supported.

NOT supported.

Going off road

None of the following, repeat NONE

of it is supported.

NOT supported.

• “Who owns what report a?”• “I want a list of every report user x can see”• “What server is data source y connecting to?” • Tableau user is R/O

Supported “public” tables have gaps

• Have full access to the database• Can do anything• Are risky to leverage• Are not supported• USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

Other users

Example

• “Backdoor stuff”

Demo