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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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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

The associative data model

After reviewing the theory of dimensional data modeling, it is now time to apply those concepts to how QlikView works. By now, we know that a QlikView document is, in general terms, used to visualize data. This data can come from disparate sources: a database, Excel files, a legacy system, or even the Web. But how do we put all this data together? The answer is: through the associative data model.

The associative data model can be said to be equal in structure to a dimensional model. However, a data model of any type in QlikView becomes an associative data model because it not only contains the different source tables from which the charts get the data, but also keeps them associated in a way which allows the QlikView document and its users to consume information and aggregate data cross dimensionally in any possible way. In a QlikView data model, all of the field values from all of the tables in the model are automatically associated among themselves based purely...

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