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QlikView Essentials

QlikView Essentials

By : Sinha
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QlikView Essentials

QlikView Essentials

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By: 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.
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Crosstable essentials

In your downloaded folder, look at EmployeeSalesTarget.xls. This file is located in C:\QlikViewEssentials\Data.

Crosstable essentials

Some of the properties of this file are as follows:

  1. A file of this format is called a Crosstable. A Crosstable is a special format of data in which some of the fields are displayed in rows and some in columns.
  2. If this table is loaded in QlikView using a regular load statement, it will load each of the fields separately.
    Crosstable essentials
  3. The problem with this kind of structure is that the table can grow very large, if each of the fields is stored separately. Performing aggregation on such a table will be difficult. You have do to Sum(2005) + Sum(2006) … to get the total sales.
  4. It would be better for QlikView applications to load a table in the following format:
    Crosstable essentials

    In this format, the aggregation of data will be much easier.

  5. Use the cross table prefix to load a cross table in QlikView.
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