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QlikView for Developers

You're reading from   QlikView for Developers Design and build scalable and maintainable BI solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469847
Length 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miguel  Angel Garcia Miguel Angel Garcia
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Barry Harmsen Barry Harmsen
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meet QlikView FREE CHAPTER 2. What's New in QlikView 12? 3. Seeing is Believing 4. Data Sources 5. Data Modeling 6. Styling Up 7. Building Dashboards 8. Scripting 9. Data Modeling Best Practices 10. Basic Data Transformation 11. Advanced Expressions 12. Set Analysis and Point In Time Reporting 13. Advanced Data Transformation 14. More on Visual Design and User Experience 15. Security Index

Chapter 12. Set Analysis and Point In Time Reporting

Comparing performance metrics over a period of time is one of the most fundamental tasks expected from any BI solution. There are a few ways to deliver these sort of comparisons in QlikView, but the most flexible and dynamic ones involve the use of Set Analysis. Set Analysis, by itself, is a powerful tool that can be used for not only for Point In Time Reporting, but for many other complex calculations.

In this chapter, we will expand on what we've learned from all of the previous chapters, and introduce the following new concepts:

  • Set Analysis and modified record sets
  • Point In Time Reporting
  • Comparative analysis with alternate states

We will approach these topics with the use of some practical examples. Given the harshness of the syntax we are going to use, and the complexity of the expressions that can be built with Set Analysis, we recommend you to have a lot of patience and dedication to the subject at hand. Even with the...

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