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QlikView Essentials

By : Chandraish Sinha
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QlikView Essentials

By: Chandraish Sinha

Overview of this book

This guide demonstrates just how easy it is to get started with QlikView and create your own BI application. Featuring an introduction to its core features before exploring how to load data and model it, you’ll soon become more confident that you can take full advantage of QlikView’s capabilities.. You will also learn how to use QVD files with QlikView – and how they offer a simpler way of handling data. After digging deeper into data handling, as you learn how to use mapping tables and create a master calendar, you’ll then find out how to get the most from QlikView’s visualization features – vital if you are to use your data insights effectively. From accessible and user friendly dashboards to strategies and best practices for subjecting data to further analysis, you can be confident that you’ll be prepared to get the most out of your data with QlikView. With details on how to finally secure your application and deploy it for a successful integration in your organization, QlikView Essentials underlines exactly why QlikView is becoming more and more popular for businesses that understand the value of data.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
QlikView Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Connecting to the database


To load data from the database, we need to create a connection to the database:

  1. Use the same QlikView file QlikViewEssentials.qvw that you created in the previous section.

  2. Go to the Main tab. Data connections should be created in the Main tab, so that they can be available to all the tabs after the Main tab.

  3. Open script editor as shown previously. On the Data tab, select OLE DB from the database drop-down list.

  4. If you are working with a Windows 64-bit system, be sure to check Force 32 Bit.

  5. Click the Connect button. In Data Link Properties, select Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider as you will be using the Access database, and click Next.

  6. Browse to QlikViewEssentials.mdb, which is in the downloaded folder QlikViewEssentials/Data. Click on Test Connection to make sure the connection is correct.

  7. Connection to the database is successfully created.

Loading the OrderHeader Table

The OrderHeader table is a database table. It stores details regarding the order such as order ID,...