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Key in qlikview

Hi ,

what is a key in qlikview ?How it is related to link table .please explain with sample example

Thanks

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jagan
Partner - Champion III
Partner - Champion III

Hi,

Check this links

What is Link Tables? What is the use?

learnallbi.com/link-table-in-qlikview/

qliktips.com/2011/05/rules-for-creating-keylink-table-in.html

tdan.com/view-articles/5172/

Regards,

jagan.

senpradip007
Specialist III
Specialist III

jagan
Partner - Champion III
Partner - Champion III

Hi,

Check this link also

http://community.qlik.com/message/569280#569280

Regards,

Jagan.

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HI Rgv,

Here you go...

vikasmahajan

PFA detail Document and Also refer http://community.qlik.com/message/487650#487650

HTH

Vikas

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key is nothing a way to connect tables in qlikview by same name,Link table is the process to remove synthetic keys and developing a good data model in Qlikview(Star Schema)

Lets suppose you have more than 3-4 tables with different Date field

Sales:

load Id,

SalesDate,

Country

from SalesTab;

Order:

Load OrderId,

OrderDate,

Product

from OrderTab;

Purchase:

Load ProductName,

InvoiceNo,

InvoiceDate

From PurchaseTab;

Here we have Three date field SalesDate,OrderDate and InvoiceDate,but we need only single date field to map all the dates for that we need a Link table with unique Key,suppose we dont have unique field value none of our table,for that we have to create composite key..

Like Below

Link Table:

Load Id&'-'& SalesDate as Key

SalesDate as Date

Resident Sales

concatenate

Load OrderId &'-'& OrderDate as Key1

OrderDate as Date

Resident Order;

concatenate

Load InvoiceNo &'-'& PurchaseDate as Key2

InvoiceDate as Date

Resident Purchase;

then now You get a star flake Data model with Link Table.

Anonymous
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Thank you for ur explaination and your precious time

Thanks