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Update Tableau Developer Guide with Guidance on Testing MR's

Annie Nelson requested to merge annie-analyst-main-patch-ba81 into main

Why is this change being made?

Recently I have been testing out using the MR database in Tableau prior to merging the new SQL so we can catch errors before the whole merge process goes through. I have written up instructions for avoiding critical errors I made. This brings over these instructions.

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Commits

  • Update 5 files
  • /content/handbook/business-technology/data-team/platform/tableau/tableau-developer-guide/images/connection_pane.png
  • /content/handbook/business-technology/data-team/platform/tableau/tableau-developer-guide/images/dropdown_database.png
  • /content/handbook/business-technology/data-team/platform/tableau/tableau-developer-guide/images/searching.png
  • /content/handbook/business-technology/data-team/platform/tableau/tableau-developer-guide/images/error_message.png
  • /content/handbook/business-technology/data-team/platform/tableau/tableau-developer-guide/_index.md

Edited by Annie Nelson

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