Reading from QVD file data discrepancy

[#1]

Hi to everybody,

I generate a QVD file in an independent qvw file with the following script:

master:
LOAD [Serial Number], 

     [Year/Month],

     If(Right([Year/Month],2)='11' or Right([Year/Month],2)='12',Left([Year/Month],4)+1,Left([Year/Month],4)) as FY,

     Right([Year/Month],2) as Month,

     makedate(Left([Year/Month],4),Right([Year/Month],2)) as DateComparison,

     if(Right([Year/Month],2)='11' or Right([Year/Month],2)='12' or Right([Year/Month],2)='01','Q1',

     if(Right([Year/Month],2)='02' or Right([Year/Month],2)='03' or Right([Year/Month],2)='04','Q2',

     if(Right([Year/Month],2)='05' or Right([Year/Month],2)='06' or Right([Year/Month],2)='07','Q3',

     if(Right([Year/Month],2)='08' or Right([Year/Month],2)='09' or Right([Year/Month],2)='10','Q4')))) as Quarter,

     if(Right([Year/Month],2)='11' or Right([Year/Month],2)='12' or Right([Year/Month],2)='01' or Right([Year/Month],2)='02' or Right([Year/Month],2)='03' or Right([Year/Month],2)='04','H1',

     if(Right([Year/Month],2)='05' or Right([Year/Month],2)='06' or Right([Year/Month],2)='07' or Right([Year/Month],2)='08' or Right([Year/Month],2)='09' or Right([Year/Month],2)='10','H2')) as Half,

     Upper(left(left(MonthName(makedate(Left([Year/Month],4),Right([Year/Month],2))),3),1))& right(left(MonthName(makedate(Left([Year/Month],4),Right([Year/Month],2))),3),2) as MName, 

     [End User NR], 

     [End User Name], 

     [Customer NR], 

     [Customer Name], 

     upper([Sub-Region]) as [Sub-Region], 

     Country, 

     [Customer ID], 

     Ownership, 

     Segment,  

     [Series Grouping] as [Family Type],  

     [Product Line] as [Press Description], 

     [Press Group] as [Product Line],

     Impressions, 

     Revenue, 

     Cogs,

     [Restated Revenue] as [Restated Revenue SN],

     Click,

     [Serial Number]&Country as LinkSNCountry,

     [Serial Number]&[Year/Month] as ROWID

     

FROM

[..\Data\Indigo Supplies Cube\Rawdata.xlsx]

(ooxml, embedded labels, table is [Historic Rawdata by SN]);



store master INTO [..\Data\Indigo Supplies Cube\rawdata.qvd] 

(qvd);

drop table master;

Later, on another file I use the following script to read from the previously generated QVD file:

master:
LOAD
 [Serial Number], 

     [Year/Month], 

     FY, 

     Month, 

     DateComparison, 

     Quarter, 

     Half, 

     MName, 

     [End User NR], 

     [End User Name], 

     [Customer NR], 

     [Customer Name], 

     [Sub-Region], 

     Country, 

     [Customer ID], 

     Ownership, 

     Segment, 

     [Family Type], 

     [Press Description], 

     [Product Line], 

     Impressions, 

     Revenue, 

     Cogs, 

     [Restated Revenue SN], 

     Click, 

     LinkSNCountry,

     ROWID

FROM

[..\Data\Indigo Supplies Cube\rawdata.qvd] 

(qvd); 

I don't understand why, but when I read the data from the QVD file instead of the Excel file (the one used to create the QVD), there seems to be a discrepancy between the information because while the information shown in many of the charts remains the same,at least one changes with no reason.

I don't know if I'm skipping some relevant syntax regarding the store or the load from QVD files; or maybe it's a problem of the chart. But when reading from the Excel file directly everything seems to be correct.

Thanks for taking your time to read this.

[rwunderlich]

Could you post some detail on the actual difference you are seeing in the chart?

-Rob

[#3]

Hey Rob,

Here is what it was supposed to be showing (BEFORE):

And here goes what it actually shows after reading from the qvd:

The expressions are as follows (for the 4 ones on the right):

Erosion:

0-

sum({<DateComparison={">=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear2) <=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear)"},

[Serial Number]=e({<DateComparison={">=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear) <=$(=vQuarterEndDate)"}>} [Serial Number])>} Impressions)

/1000000

NEW IB:

sum

({<DateComparison={">=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear) <=$(=vQuarterEndDate)"},

[Serial Number]=e({<DateComparison={">=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear2) <=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear)"}>} [Serial Number])>} Impressions)

/1000000

Org Grw:

(

sum({<FY={$(=FYEnd)},Quarter={$(=QuarterEnd)}>}Impressions)

-

sum({<FY={$(=FYEnd-1)},Quarter={$(=QuarterEnd)}>}Impressions)

-

sum({<DateComparison={">=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear) <=$(=vQuarterEndDate)"},

[Serial Number]=e({<DateComparison={">=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear2) <=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear)"}>} [Serial Number])>} Impressions)

+

sum({<DateComparison={">=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear2) <=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear)"},

[Serial Number]=e({<DateComparison={">=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear) <=$(=vQuarterEndDate)"}>} [Serial Number])>} Impressions)

)

/1000000

Q2-2012:

sum

({<FY={$(=FYEnd)},Quarter={$(=QuarterEnd)}>}Impressions)

/1000000

And here goes the expressions for the variables:

vQuarterEndDate=

If(QuarterEnd='Q1', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd,01)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q2', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd,04)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q3', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd,07)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q4', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd,10))

))))

vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear=

If(QuarterEnd='Q1', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-1,01)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q2', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-1,04)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q3', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-1,07)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q4', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-1,10))

))))

vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear2=

If(QuarterEnd='Q1', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-2,01)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q2', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-2,04)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q3', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-2,07)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q4', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-2,10))

))))

vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear3=

If(QuarterEnd='Q1', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-3,01)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q2', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-3,04)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q3', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-3,07)),

If(QuarterEnd='Q4', MonthEnd(MakeDate(FYEnd-3,10))

))))

I know that this is quite complicated to understand, but it's ever more weird why the qlikview changes the data.

Maybe it has relation with the variables, but I have checked the values on both of the versions and they have the same value.

Thank you for your time.

-Jon

[rwunderlich]

Try to simplify identifying the differences. The chart makes it a bit more complex.

1. Same/different number of rows in file vs qvd method? If different, what rows are missing?

2. Total the numbers such as Impressions in each file. same or different? If different, try the same comparison grouped by dimension.

-Rob

[#5]

Hi Rob and thanks for your time,

1. I have the same number of rows on both files.

2. The total Impressions is also the same, but I get different values if I check, for example, the value of:

sum({<[Serial Number]=e({<DateComparison={">=$(=vQuarterEndDatePreviousYear) <=$(=vQuarterEndDate)"}>} )>} Impressions)

On what I understand, it has to have some relation with the serial numbers, but I have exactly the same (in values and number of SN).

I will recheck everything later, but this thing is driving me crazy.

Thanks again!