Tableau Quick Tip - SUM vs WINDOW_SUM vs TOTAL

Do you know the difference between SUM, WINDOW_SUM and TOTAL?

[iamanda]

Big fan of all your videos. The way you explain has made it so much easier to understand. Wondering if some day you can make a video on how to manage the data security/access of Tableau? :)

[SebAnt]

Among all the Tableau teachers I’ve encountered in 2 years, I prefer your teaching style and content the most!

[dancefever]

Thank you for this great explanation. Do you offer training? I need help with Tableau calculations.. especially how to create calculated fields out of any requirement.

[giulioderrico]

Great explanation! Just a comment. I think it's not correct to say that TOTAL is the minimum of the minimums (06:03). Actually it is, but it's not the way tableau works with TOTAL. Under the hood it is looking at the entire table (data underlying the current view) and is finding the minimum. If you used AVG as aggregation, it should have returned the AVG considering the underlying data to the view, NOT the average of the averages.

[manwendersingh]

Thanks you so much, @sqlbelle! I'm looking more video like this.

[alainponroy]

Thank you for this very interesting video 🙂

[VizWithVictory]

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[larissaroberta]

So happy to see this type of video created by a woman ❤ the explanation is wonderful! thank you so much for this @sqlbelle

[cloudshippingservices]

I still didnt get it, do you have another example?

[yashishkarkera]

Your explanation was perceptive and enlightening!!!

[adamland]

half understood, but what I mostly don't understand is why is this useful?

[santhosh]

The result of WINDOWS_SUM we can achieve by usinf LOD functions also...
What is the difference and what are the correct scenario to use LOD and windows functions?

[jackieyu]

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