Easy empty local extracts By Ryan Stryker

Extracts are not a hard sell; the performance gains we see through the local materialization of data views are usually staggering. And Tableau Server gives us a handy platform for automagically refreshing it all.For large extracts, though, it can be quite timeconsuming to create a desktop version before publishing to the server. Understandably, customers often ask if there’s a way to “just have Server do it.”Of course there is.

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