I haven't used any other off the shelf viz tools but Tableau is alright for visualizations once you get the hang of it. Definitely a step up from having to code everything on an Excel Dashboard.
There are some quirks depending on the database. Like with Access for example, you can't do full outer joins so I'm left having to put in some dummy data as a workaround.
Thanks! I'll have a look, and try to compare with some tools I've used (Datastudio, Qlikview, Looker, Power Bi and Business Objects). That could make an interesting article