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Invoke a Tableau dataset refresh from a SQL Agent Job

  • January 9, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    #4135633

    Hello, we have a nightly SQL Agent Job that refreshes our database on SQL Server 2016 Server. We also have a tablue timer that begins refreshing a Tableau dataset but when the Tableau starts its dataset refresh before our SQL Agent job completes it slows down our nightly SQL Agent job. Is there a way to start the tableau refresh from the SQL Agent job?

  • January 10, 2023 at 8:10 pm

    #4136087

    Thanks for posting your issue and hopefully someone will answer soon.

    This is an automated bump to increase visibility of your question.

  • January 11, 2023 at 2:18 am

    #4136216

    I know almost nothing of Tableau, so just a couple of thought-provoking ideas.

    1. Couldn't you have the Tableau Timer check to see if an "ItsDone.txt" file contains a certain file that the SQL Server Restore job pushes out somewhere?  Or, may have Tableau read similar from a table that the SQL Server Restore job creates?
    2. Does Tableau have a CLI that the SQL Server Job could fire off a command on?

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  • January 12, 2023 at 12:48 pm

    #4136803

    You should be able to build a .bat file based on the following help page:

    https://help.tableau.com/current/online/en-us/to_refresh_extract_commandline.htm

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