Ad-hoc reporting response time degrades with large crosstab views and multiple dimension filters

techwizard
Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Context filters are definitely part of the solution here. When users apply regular filters, Tableau includes all dimensions in the query and filters afterward. Context filters create a temporary table with filtered data first, then subsequent queries run against that smaller dataset. This can reduce query time by 50-70% for scenarios like yours.