With the release of 8.2.1, 8.1.9, and 8.0.13 on Friday, last week was a busy week for publishing and updating Quick Fix articles. For detailed information about product updates included in these releases, see the Tableau Software Release Notes page.

On that note, here is the list of articles published last week:

• Unable to Connect to Oracle OBIEE
• Error "Job timed out and cancelled" After Upgrading
• Saved Data Sources Missing
• Unable to Add Labels to When Using Polygon Mark Types
• Error "Class not registered" Connecting to Microsoft Analysis Services
• Error "ORDER BY without LIMIT..." Connecting to Impala Through HiveServer2
• Error "startDate cannot be more than 30 days ago" Refreshing Salesforce Extracts
• Unable to Encrypt Passwords in tabcmd Scripts
• Subscribing to Custom Views
• Tableau Server Slow or Inaccessible and CPU Spiking
• Error "Username or password incorrect" Publishing After Upgrade
• Error "PSQLException: Connection refused" Upgrading Tableau Server
• Duplicate Product Keys Displayed on Licenses Page
• Some Join Operators Unavailable in Excel or Text Data Connections
• Tableau Desktop Exits Unexpectedly when Connected to Teradata
• Error "Tableau has stopped working" and Other Issues Opening Tableau Desktop
• Tableau Desktop Closes Unexpectedly When Creating Extracts

As I was reviewing articles last week, I came across one that included the error "Tableau Server initialization failed." While working on articles, I have seen this error many times. The error itself is fairly generic, and usually accompanied by a second, more specific error. The challenge is finding the specific article associated with your flavor of the error. Below is the current list of published articles that include this error, and a little additional information about the circumstances in which each article applies.

1. Resolving "Tableau Server initialization failed" Error - This article covers situations in which Tableau Server is installed to a path that contains characters that are not 7-bit ASCII.
2. Error "Tableau Server Initialization Failed" When Using Underscores in Host Name - This article is specific to Tableau Server 8.1.0 and 8.1.1, when the host name includes underscores.
3. “Tableau Server initialization failed” Error During Installation - This article is specific to instances of  Tableau Server installed on Windows Azure virtual machines.
4. Errors "Tableau Server initialization failed" and "initdb: could not execute command" During Installation - This article applies to all instances of Tableau Server. The error occurs because the user signed in to Windows does not have sufficient permissions to install Tableau Server.
5. Errors "initialization failed" and "failed with code 1" During Installation - This article is specific to Tableau Server 8.0.0, 8.0.1, and 8.1 and later versions.

And now for articles published last week.

• Unable to Change Usernames
• Date Calculated Fields Return Nulls After Extract Refresh
• Salesforce Schema Changes Not Reflected After Extract Refresh
• Error "error code: '1' ... while processing statement" Interacting with Hadoop Hive Data
• Text Gets Cut Off in a Dashboard Text Object
• Server Processes Unlicensed and Data Engine Down After Upgrade
• Aggregating By a Dimension Not in the View
• Unable to Dynamically Synchronize Axes Across Multiple Worksheets
• Error "Invalid username, password, security token" Connecting to Salesforce
• Showing Color Legends for Categories with No Data
• Unable to Impersonate with Microsoft Analysis Services Data Source
• Error "No License found" On Mac
• Server Processes Unlicensed and Data Engine Down After Upgrade
• Aggregating By a Dimension Not in the View
• Creating Placeholder Date Columns