Chapter 3. Data Sources
We've completed the "Seeing is Believing" phase with big success. We've shown HighCloud Airlines the potential value that QlikView can bring to their business and how they will be able to give their raw data the meaning their business requires to make everyday decisions. Now, the natural question that arises after seeing what QlikView can do on the frontend is: What type of database does QlikView require to work?
The straight answer to this question is, simply, that QlikView does not necessarily requires a specific database or
Data Warehouse (DWH) to pull data from. It could benefit from using a DWH, but it is not required. However, the data must reside somewhere, in order to be able to pull it into QlikView, visualize it, discover patterns in it, and build all kinds of charts with it. That somewhere can be almost any standard database, flat file (for example, .xls or .csv), web page, and so on, or even any combination of the above.
When building the data model for...
