What you need for this book

You need a copy of QlikView Desktop, which you can download for free from http://www.qlikview.com/download. After this, you shouldn't need anything else. You can also test the examples in Qlik Sense.

To demonstrate the different techniques and functions, I will usually get you to load a table of data. We do this using the INLINE function. For example:

Load * Inline [
  Field1, Field2
  Value1, Value2
  Value3, Value4
];

This will load a table with two fields, Field1 and Field2, and two rows of data.

Most of the time, this type of table is enough for what we need to do. In a few examples, where I need you to use more data than that, we will use publicly available data sources.

Get Mastering QlikView now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.