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.