Loading Data from a Database – Connections and Syntax

Database connection syntax and rules

▪ LIB CONNECT TO 'connection name'; Data interface options
o Should precede every load statement requiring it
▪ Only one open connection at a time, during execution OLE DB Select provider
▪ Connections should be Read-only from list
o No Inserts, updates or deletes permitted ODBC Set up DSN in the
OS first

Source data extraction possibilities

Data can be extracted from several types of database datasets:
▪ Physical table structures
▪ Logical views, representing a return of a tabular dataset
▪ Programming constructs:
o Stored procedures which return a dataset
o User-defined functions which return a dataset

Connection storage locations

The connections are stored as follows:
▪ Qlik Sense Desktop: in the .qvf file
▪ Qlik Sense Enterprise: in the Server repository

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