Content in Tableau Community Forums /profile-content.jspa?filterID=contentstatus[published]&targetUser=21674 Recent content in Tableau Community Forums en Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:06:35 GMT Jive Engage 8.0.5.0 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/) 2013-04-09T16:06:35Z en Can Tableau connect to database from Visual Studios (.mdf)? https://community.tableau.com/thread/125083 <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:34a938b6-97e0-4588-856c-691e0b6d36af] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>I have created a project in Microsoft Visual Studios Express 2012 for Web which has a small database. I would like to use Tableau to connect to this database. It is a local database with the extension of .mdf. Is there a way to connect this data to Tableau?</p><p>Thank you,</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:34a938b6-97e0-4588-856c-691e0b6d36af] --> connection connect_to_data Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:06:35 GMT tableaucommunity@tableau.com https://community.tableau.com/thread/125083 2013-04-09T16:06:35Z 6 years 3 months ago 2 0