Resident Table Persistence

[jasonfreitas]

I'm trying to figure out if resident tables persist in a QVW after saving, allowing for future executions to reference those tables. I always thought they did, but I just noticed a problem with an application that suggests they don't (or something has changed in the environment that is causing different behavior).

Here is an example of how I can recreate the error:

Create script:

Table1:

LOAD * Inline [

Field1

Value1

];

Reload and save QVW.

Reopen the QVW and note that Table1 exists with one row in the Table Viewer.

Alter the script (delete the old code) and replace with:

Table2:

LOAD

Field1 as Field2

Resident Table1;

Upon subsequent reload, error is:

Table not found

Table2:

LOAD

Field1 as Field2

Resident Table1

Is this normal behavior? In my actual application, I don't actually delete code, of course. The difference is that the equivalent Table1 is built in an IF construct. Subsequent reloads need to reference this table that was built in a prior execution.

[awhitfield]

Resident refers to the table residing in memory with the context off the document, so once you've commented it out and reloaded it's gone!

Andy

[jasonfreitas]

Ah, yes -- that makes sense. I guess I was hoping that there was a way to access the table in the saved QVW without having to reload it from the original source. When I open it up (after the first load), I see the table in the Table Viewer with a rowcount. Is there another way to load the table into memory? Should the NoOfRows function work on that table?

[ramoncova06]

you can if you do a binary load to the document itself

[ramoncova06 · Accepted solution]

I could not find a qlik link for this but look into this

http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2015/03/qlikview-binary-load

QlikView Addict: QlikView Binary Loads

[maxgro]

to make persistent data you can use

- .qvw and binary load (as Ramon already suggested);

- qvd (1 .qvd is one table in a file); search in Qlik help qvd