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    <title>topic Qlikview practice question in QlikView</title>
    <link>https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qlikview-practice-question/m-p/575497#M1103463</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;A customer maintains an annual workday calendar data in a .csv file.&amp;nbsp; The file contains each date of the year and a code that represents each day as either a weekday, weekend, or holiday. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;A developer loads the file directly into QlikView and attempts to join it onto the master calendar table. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;The master calendar table contains calendar data for the same time period as the customer's calendar, using the field Date from each table as the key. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;The resulting table contains multiple instances of each date and the Day Type field has no effect on the pre-existing data. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;How should the developer correct the join?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"&gt;use the Date() function to format the key fields as dates with the same form&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;&amp;gt;use the Upper() function to format the date as string with the same form&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;&amp;gt;use the String() function to format the key fields as strings&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;&amp;gt;change Join to Left Join to eliminate the multiple instances&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:29:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Qlikview practice question</title>
      <link>https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qlikview-practice-question/m-p/575497#M1103463</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;A customer maintains an annual workday calendar data in a .csv file.&amp;nbsp; The file contains each date of the year and a code that represents each day as either a weekday, weekend, or holiday. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;A developer loads the file directly into QlikView and attempts to join it onto the master calendar table. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;The master calendar table contains calendar data for the same time period as the customer's calendar, using the field Date from each table as the key. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;The resulting table contains multiple instances of each date and the Day Type field has no effect on the pre-existing data. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"&gt;How should the developer correct the join?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"&gt;use the Date() function to format the key fields as dates with the same form&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;&amp;gt;use the Upper() function to format the date as string with the same form&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;&amp;gt;use the String() function to format the key fields as strings&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: #F3F3F3;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;&amp;gt;change Join to Left Join to eliminate the multiple instances&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:29:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2014-03-28T18:29:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Qlikview practice question</title>
      <link>https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qlikview-practice-question/m-p/575498#M1103464</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;First option should be most appropriate because, though the values in the fields might be same, but the QV is reading it as a string.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:37:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qlikview-practice-question/m-p/575498#M1103464</guid>
      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-28T18:37:41Z</dc:date>
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