Hi Folks,
Newbie here with a first question to the expert community,
I inherited a QlikView report which was importing data from an excel worksheet, utilising the ooxml function, and doing so perfectly. The report contained a few variables read from the table columns and two of these were dates / times of events.
These were acknowledged in the LOAD script by utilising the timestamp LOAD command thus;
LOAD timestamp (DTREQ) as reqTS,
timestamp (DTAUT) as autTS,
These work perfectly and allow a ffurther scrupted calcumation to work flawlessly sebtracing one from the other to give a time difference between the two events.
However, the data set has grown now and I am encountering the excel row limit issue!
No problem, I will simply import from a txt file by changing ooxml to txt with appropriate parameters.
This works well in terms of importing the data, but it will not import my date / time column data. If i remove the timestamp command from the LOAD, then it imports the data perfectly, but as text. If i replace the timestamp command, it will not import at all.
The bottom line is that 'timestamp' in a scripted LOAD behaves differently between an ooxml import and a txt import!!
Can anyone advise why and how I can manage this?
Many thanks,
Steve
