topic Incremental Load file questions in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Incremental-Load-file-questions/m-p/259787#M98057 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Everyone,</P><P></P><P>I have a master file of data which I want to read in and save out as a QVD.&nbsp; From then on I want to read in that QVD, delete old records I don't want and append new ones, then overwrite that existing QVD which another QV document reads in to use in the front-end.</P><P></P><P>This works fine.&nbsp; My worry is to productionise this there is an issue around what would happen if 6 weeks down the line someone (probably me) does a debug load of 1000 rows (for example) which overwrites the rolling master QVD with this data.&nbsp; This leaves you up the proverbial creek.</P><P></P><P>I wondered if anyone had automated a system that works around this problem of overwriting your master each week?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P></P><P>Gareth</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:24:37 GMT 2011-11-28T13:24:37Z Incremental Load file questions https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Incremental-Load-file-questions/m-p/259787#M98057 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Everyone,</P><P></P><P>I have a master file of data which I want to read in and save out as a QVD.&nbsp; From then on I want to read in that QVD, delete old records I don't want and append new ones, then overwrite that existing QVD which another QV document reads in to use in the front-end.</P><P></P><P>This works fine.&nbsp; My worry is to productionise this there is an issue around what would happen if 6 weeks down the line someone (probably me) does a debug load of 1000 rows (for example) which overwrites the rolling master QVD with this data.&nbsp; This leaves you up the proverbial creek.</P><P></P><P>I wondered if anyone had automated a system that works around this problem of overwriting your master each week?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P></P><P>Gareth</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:24:37 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Incremental-Load-file-questions/m-p/259787#M98057 2011-11-28T13:24:37Z Incremental Load file questions https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Incremental-Load-file-questions/m-p/259788#M98058 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Would you ever do a debug load against the production copy? If you don't have two environments, perhaps the solution is to create a devlopment copy.</P><P></P><P>-Rob</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:04:01 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Incremental-Load-file-questions/m-p/259788#M98058 rwunderlich 2011-11-28T16:04:01Z