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Implementing Qlik Sense

You're reading from   Implementing Qlik Sense Design, Develop, and Validate BI solutions for consultants

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460448
Length 438 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kaushik Solanki Kaushik Solanki
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Ganapati Hegde Ganapati Hegde
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Consultant - An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing for the Project 3. Prerequisites to Start a Project 4. Requirement Gathering 5. Architecture Design 6. Development 7. Validation, UAT and Go-Live 8. Post Go-Live 9. Avoiding Common Pitfalls 10. Knowledge Sets 11. A Real Life Case-Study

Common challenges of Data modeling

When you start data model for your Qlik Sense application which involves linking tables together, you may come across common challenges which may make your data model behave unexpectedly.

Let us have a look at some of the challenges which you may come across.

Synthetic Keys

Qlik Sense developers are aware that whenever you have common field names in two or more tables, Qlik Sense links them together automatically. When you have one field which is common, then you don't have a problem; it is a clean linking between them. However, when you have two or more fields that are common, Qlik automatically generates the synthetic keys and synthetic table.

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