QlikView circular reference

Question

I have just started working on QlikView and facing difficulty in data-modelling. can anybody help me in resolving circular reference in the following model. Data-Model With Circular Reference

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

One solution could be to load the Cities table twice (Cities and Cities2) and name the unique key CityId2 in Cities2 and in Branches.

An other way could be to join the Cities into their refering tables while selecting the data from your database.

Answer 2

Left Join Countries into Cities --> Duplicate the resulting table --> Appropriately rename fields(i.e. [Branch City]) and Left Join one of the tables into Customers and the other into Branches.

Left Join Branches into departments, into Employees, into employees and left join designations into employees.

Also - make sure you need all of those fields.

While against many relational DB philosophies, your best bet here is probably to de-normalize. Qlikview's engine is very good at compressing data (only stores unique data once w. pointer table). The whole reason to normalize data is to remove redundancy, but becasue QV does much of that for you, overall performance is better with less tables. Otherwise, its the developer who has to decide the balance between ease of maintenance and denorm.

Data modeling best practices in Qlikview define the star schema as ideal. This is generally a solid guide, which will help you avoid problems like circular references. A balance of normalization and proper modeling is required for optimal performance.