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QlikView for Developers

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen
Book Image

QlikView for Developers

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease. Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success. A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively. You will also learn how to write useful scripts for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
QlikView for Developers
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Design challenges of data modeling


We will now provide some useful tips for dealing with more complex data models, specifically those used for dealing with multiple fact tables in a single QlikView document.

We will take a hands-on approach and we will continue using the Airline Operations document that we have previously used. The design challenge we will describe in this section will be aimed at integrating a new fact table into our data model, one that contains Airline Employment Statistics.

The Airline Employment statistics table

The table we will be adding to the data model contains monthly information about the number of employees per airline, separated by full time and part time, and also showing the equivalent total of full time employees.

The table contains the following fields:

  • Year

  • Month

  • %Airline ID

  • %Unique Carrier Code

  • Unique Carrier

  • Carrier Code

  • Carrier Name

  • %Carrier Group ID

  • # FullTime Employees

  • # PartTime Employees

  • # Equivalent FTEs

  • # Total Employees

  • Period

  • Month...