Mastering QlikView

In general, this is very good book for advanced QiliView developers. It not only provide a lot of advanced tips for QlikView development, but also plenty of resources to use.The “Performance Tuning and Scalability” chapter provides tips based on internal working of QlikView engine. It not only covers performance tuning tips for scripts, but also tuning tips for charts. This chapter ends with Direct Discovery feature of QlikView and how to set up your regression testing environment with JMeter. This is a chapter that I would come back to reference again in my line of BI development.In “Data Modeling” chapter, I like tips to handle keys to associate tables, the strategy to encode data in fact table to improve efficiency, and different strategies to combine fact tables in a QlikView application.A significant portion of the “Best Practices for Loading Data” chapter talks about QlikView Expessor, an ETL tool. This part of content has more introductory information for people who may consider to use it. The “Data Governance” chapter has a lot of best practices to keep your applications and environment organized and documented automatically. QlikView administrators would find this chapter to be helpful.The “Advanced Expressions” chapter is my favorite chapter of the book. It finally helps me truly understand the most mysterious feature of QlikView, Set Analysis. This chapter is a must-read for all QlikView developers. The chapter also covers other very useful development techniques, including dollar-sign expansion, advanced set analysis, row-wise and column-wise calculation. These are seldom covered in details in other materials you can find over the internet. The next chapter “Advanced Scripting” covers rest of topics related to scripts.The last chapter “Visualizing Data” has a pretty interesting summary of visualization. It provides a lot of useful links and resources related to data visualization.Overall, this a great book that I would keep with me all the time.

Brilliant book for every QilkView-practitioner. A lot of valuable insights and useful technics available in this book will help reader grow in level.

I expected the book in pdf format

Great book!

I bought separately both types of this great book, the printed version and the e-book version.This is only my second review as I am harsh to myself and then consequently to others and hard to get thrilled. The first one was about "QlikView 11 for Developers" written by Barry Harmsen and Miguel Garcia.So, this is a "must" for every serious QlikView developer. A book that will give you unexpected insights evevnthough you might went through all classical QlikView classroom training sesssions and have read 5-7 books about QlikView. When I noted this title I was a bit sceptical about real need to have it after having available great books, like previously mentioned "QlikView 11 for Developers", and "QlikView for Developers Cookbook" by Stephen Redmond, but then still decided to increase my personal Qlik library. I have read it over Christmas holidays and was very much surpirsed with the knowledge and increased understanding of QV and then decided to write this review.If you are or plan to be serious about QlikView you need to read these books, in this order: already mentioned "QlikView 11 for Developers", "QlikView for Developers Cookbook" and "Mastering QlikView".Not to mislead potential buyers and readers, I would only remove the Qlik Sense name from the cover as this book really does not deal with this new product, a true self-service BI tool. Of course, when it comes to scripting than it does, but then, there is no difference between QlikView and Qlik Sense from the scripting point of view. The difference lies in the front end and only the geneal thoughts and suggestions in the last chapter about visualisations are not enough to show the difference between the two products.Finally, I would really recommend this book to any QlikView developer.

An excellent read, fully enjoyable and shows you some of the pitfalls you can get into without realising. A concise and funny read, strongly recommend for all users of QlikView.

Tem boas dicas, confesso que esperava mais de um livro que se diz direcionado a pessoas experientes em Qlikview.No geral é um bom livro.

I bought separately both types of this great book, the printed version and the e-book version.This is only my second review as I am harsh to myself and then consequently to others and hard to get thrilled. The first one was about "QlikView 11 for Developers" written by Barry Harmsen and Miguel Garcia.So, this is a "must" for every serious QlikView developer. A book that will give you unexpected insights evevnthough you might went through all classical QlikView classroom training sesssions and have read 5-7 books about QlikView. When I noted this title I was a bit sceptical about real need to have it after having available great books, like previously mentioned "QlikView 11 for Developers", and "QlikView for Developers Cookbook" by Stephen Redmond, but then still decided to increase my personal Qlik library. I have read it over Christmas holidays and was very much surpirsed with the knowledge and increased understanding of QV and then decided to write this review.If you are or plan to be serious about QlikView you need to read these books, in this order: already mentioned "QlikView 11 for Developers", "QlikView for Developers Cookbook" and "Mastering QlikView".Not to mislead potential buyers and readers, I would only remove the Qlik Sense name from the cover as this book really does not deal with this new product, a true self-service BI tool. Of course, when it comes to scripting than it does, but then, there is no difference between QlikView and Qlik Sense from the scripting point of view. The difference lies in the front end and only the geneal thoughts and suggestions in the last chapter about visualisations are not enough to show the difference between the two products.Finally, I would really recommend this book to any QlikView developer.

This book encapsulates the extensive experience of a well-respected QlikView practitioner. Instead of laboriously trawling through each of QlikView’s features and functions, the focus of this book is to share Stephen’s practical experience that differentiates a great QlikView developer from a QlikView developer.It’s all too common to read technical books that are little more than re-worded versions of the help files or user manuals that come free with a product. Mastering QlikView is not one of them.In the preface to this book Stephen states “there is no substitute for experience”. But, in the context of QlikView experience, if there were one, this book would surely be in pole position.A great QlikView developer creates applications that: scale to handle large amounts of data with thousands of users, answer the most complex questions and make it easy for decision makers to find the answers they need.