Access Microsoft SQL Server data from virtually any application that can access external data. Applications that can access SQL Server or MySQL data can now connect to Microsoft SQL Server with this driver. Connect Microsoft SQL Server data with.
Tableau includes built-in connectors for many databases. These connectors take advantage of capabilities and optimizations specific to these data sources, and they're developed and tested to ensure they are robust and provide good performance.
But you might be working with a database that Tableau doesn't have a connection for. In that case, you still might be able to connect Tableau to the database. Tableau has a connector that uses the ODBC standard. By using ODBC, you can access any data source that supports the SQL standard and implements the ODBC API. In this article.