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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 5. Data Modeling

Up until now, we've seen the HighCloud Airlines team becoming familiar with QlikView and its powerful analytic capabilities and data association engine. The time has come to establish how their first production application will be developed, starting with its very core: the Data Model.

We've constructed a data model in the preceding chapters using pre-processed tables, so it was an easy task. In this chapter however, we will dig into the hows and whys of data model design in QlikView, exploring different scenarios and learning about the inner workings of QlikView's associative engine. This enables us to take the most advantage of the dataset we will be analyzing.

In this chapter, you will learn about:

  • Which type of data model is best suited for QlikView
  • The different "rules" that need to be followed when designing data models for a QlikView document
  • How to best take advantage of the associative data model to make your documents highly...
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