QV merges "text" that is not similar

[#1]

Hello again,

i have a problem and i just cant see why it is so:

ReItem:

SQL SELECT "DIMENSION10_",

    "DIMENSION3_",

    "DIMENSION4_",

    ITEMID,

    ITEMNAME

FROM dbo.INVENTTABLE;

Item:

NoConcatenate LOAD

       "DIMENSION10_",

    "DIMENSION3_",

    "DIMENSION4_",

    ITEMID,

    ITEMNAME

Resident ReItem;

DROP table ReItem;

Store Item into '\\domainsvr\Baze\Item.qvd';

This is my script and it should give me the searched Data.

My Problem(i just checked on this one):

I have 2 "similar" ITEMID numbers: 416 8 and 041 68 but after i run this script it only shows me 041 68(as ItemID) but 2 different ITEMNAME!! It should be 2 ItemIDs and 2 ItemaNames,,,

Does anybody has an idea why the scrpit merges these two text numbers? Or how i could fix this issue?I dont see why...

Thank you for your help and i hope for some...

Greetings,

Kristian

[#2]

I'm not sure if I get your problem correctly, but I think that your problem is that qlikview evaluates your itemID as a number, and ommits the 0 therefore.

Does the attached file help you?

I loaded ItemID using the text() function, so the 041 and the 41 ItemID's are loaded "as is"

Roberto

[#3]

unfortunatelly it does not fix the issue. It seems that no matter what i write in the script, the output is always "false" with the merged item IDs...When i look into the table on the server, the input is wright... somewhere in the transfer server-->QV the ITEMIDs are merged...

[#4]

Attached now my sample, how it looks like.

Somehow he dont "get" the ITEMIDs properly but merges them. 416 8 is an Item that is beeing merged into 041 68...

Anyone? Some more ideas? I am desperate...

[#5 · Accepted solution]

So the Podloska-Din..... and the VIJAK-PANHD should be separated (one belongs to the 04168 and the other to the 4168, right??)

In your load script, I don't see you use the text() function...

Additionally, I think you shouln't use resident load in this case...

So what if you change your loadscript to the script below (replace it after the odbc connect)

Item:
LOAD
"DIMENSION10_",
"DIMENSION3_",
"DIMENSION4_",
text(ITEMID),//to get the text representation instead of the numeric representation
    ITEMNAME;
SQL SELECT "DIMENSION10_",
"DIMENSION3_",
"DIMENSION4_",
ITEMID,
ITEMNAME
FROM dbo.INVENTTABLE;

I think your problem is that FIRST you load things in SQL (where the conversion to numeric is done already...) and THEN you do a resident load...

I think it is solved when you just load it (without resident) and load it as text instead of numeric

Let me know if it helped.

[#6]

Not much to say but... i love you

Thank you very much! This was my mistake...

[#7]

Hehe You're welcome.

Happy Qlikviewing!