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Month: July 2015
Disable 70-persistent-net.rules generation on CentOS 6 VM
If you’re like me you probably have an environment that is running on some virtual platform and like everyone else you have built a template to spin Linux systems. One of the things lately we were running into was the “70-persistent-net.rules”, which associated MAC address to Network interfaces. The easiest way I have found to…
Connecting Tableau to DataStax Cassandra with Cassandra CQL ODBC.
Recently, I did some testing with Tableau Desktop connecting to DataStax Cassandra using their newly released DataStax ODBC driver. Before the release of the DataStax ODBC driver, the only way to connect Tableau Desktop to DataStax was the DataStax Enterprise Connector (a.k.a. Hive Thrift Server). While Hive is a great analytic tool, it is somewhat slow. When…
Connecting Tableau to Google Cloud SQL
Before connecting your Tableau Application up to your Google Cloud SQL Instance, you will need to make sure that you have assigned an IP Address to the instance. You will also need to allow the network in which your Tableau application is located, access to the Google Cloud SQL Instance. First, I recommend that you…