Category Archives: QlikView

Low-Cost Data Analysis & Visualization: It’s Getting Better All The Time

Over the weekend I have revisited Tableau, enjoyed some success with MonetDB, tried to turn MySQL into a hundred million row data warehouse, been underwhelmed with Firebird, installed Greenplum and spent many frustrated hours with Talend Open Studio, Pentaho Kettle … Continue reading

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Improving The Load Process With Multiple ODBC Connections

One of the most useful tricks shared at the QlikView conference was from Nik Boman on improving the data extraction from databases. ODBC is a slow protocol, running orders of magnitude slower than the database or a typical Ethernet connection. … Continue reading

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QlikView 8.5 Released

Download it from http://ftp.qliktech.com/qvwebdownloads/

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Corrected: How To Request A Ticket Using QlikView’s HTTP Server

WordPress destroys code. Live and learn. You can download the code here.

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How To Request A Ticket Using QlikView’s HTTP Server

My apologies for the code that was posted here. Copying and pasting broke the code. Download a ZIP of the code here. I have expanded on the demo code that was floating around at Qonnections 2008. That code included an … Continue reading

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String vs. Numeric Comparisons

I don’t know if you use a lot of Sum-If logic like I do. It’s a blessing and a curse. For example: sum(if(Category=’Sales’,Amount)). It just doesn’t scale up to tens of millions of rows. Even with only a million rows, … Continue reading

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Using QlikView Tickets

Starting in Server 8.2, QlikView authentication is much more flexible with tickets. I’m just getting started with them myself, and I’ll be sharing the resources I find along the way. Big thanks to Dan English, Johan Jeanson and Claes Linsefors … Continue reading

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Faster Reloads With “Core Control”

QlikView is multi-threaded in many areas but not during the load process. Next time you’re running a load script, open the Windows Task Manager. If you have 2 cores, the processor usage will never go above 50%. You can to … Continue reading

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Feedback For Expression Variables

My thanks to Henric Cronström for taking the time to review my post on expression variables. He said the name for this new feature is still being decided. And he had some valuable information for getting started. Your text is … Continue reading

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Seeing Dollar Signs in QlikView 8.5

One of the more interesting features coming in QlikView 8.5 is “Dollar-Sign Expansion with an Expression”, Section 24.5 in the coming Reference Manual. One place in the manual they are called “on-the-fly variables”, but I prefer “expression variables”. In many … Continue reading

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