Creating Data Models

Welcome to the next chapter of the book, Creating Data Models. In this chapter, we will look at creating a star schema. We will also look at different types of schemas, and why a star schema is used for QlikView dashboard development. We will learn all about the data models used in QlikView, and how to implement them in our application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating a star schema
• Getting data from databases
• Analyzing the resulting model
• Creating a QVD file