QLIKVIEW

PK and Textual Data

Adimension table typically has two types of

columns,primary keys tofact tables and
textual\descreptive data.

Fk and Numerical

A fact table typically has two types of

columns, foreign keys to dimension tables
and measures those that contain numeric
facts. A fact table can contain facts data on
detail or aggregated level.

Consider you are working in a sales

environment...
Dimensions are (Slowly Changing)
Customer, CustomerName, CustomerID,
Supplier, SupplierID, SupplierName,
Customer/Supplier Address,
EmployeeName, EmployeeID etc...

Facts Data/Tables are (Updating

daily/regularly)
Invoice Qty, Invoice Price, Invoice Date etc...

*STAR SCHEMA
*SNOWFLOW SCHEMA

Dimensio
n Tables

Fact Table

QLIKVIEW WORKS FASTER IF THERE IS LESS

NO
OF JOINS
SO STAR SCHEMA IS BETTER.

ANALAYSIS
Reporting
Visualization
In built ETL handling
Different Data sources
IN memory

Works on RAM