First Tutorial Part 11: One More Thing...

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One More Thing...

You may have noticed that we sprinkled a lot of descriptions across all our definitions. Documentation is mandatory in Tilda. If this bothers you, just type "Blah..." for dummy fillers. But this is what you'd miss:

• TILDA___Docs.TILDATUTORIAL.html

This is VERY significant:

• Documentation is automatically generated
• Documentation has a dynamic search feature
• Dependency semantics are fully understood by Tilda, so dependencies when creating a view, dependencies when creating formulas, dependencies when creating pivots are all managed and surfaced as links throughout the page. From a given view column, you can trace the entire lineage back to the source table column(s) for example.
• You can attach attractive simplified ER diagrams to the docs maintained through the Tilda Chrome Extension Tool.
• For formulas in particular, the combination if readable SQL fragments and detailed documentation ensures that your code and docs don't get out of sync easily, a real nasty issue in any complex data-oriented project.
• Documentation is delivered in the form of self-contained HTML files that are easy to host, distribute as attachments in emails etc...

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