Data Analysis and Chart Creation From SQL Server using QlikView

Using the By QlikView personal edition tool you can analyze data in sources such as Excel Spreadsheets, databases, or text files. You can create charts from your data in a database or Excel file.

Use the following procedure to create a bar chart, line chart or pie chart from a SQL Server database.

Step 1

• Open QlikView tool and select file new menu
• The Select data source form will be shown.

Step 2

 

• Cancel this popup by Clicking the cancel button.
• Go to the file menu and click edit script

Step 3

 

• The Edit script form will be shown.
• Go to the Database section

Step 4

 

• Select OLEDB in the database combo box and click the connect button.
• Then the data link properties form will be shown
• Select the “Microsoft OLEDB provider for SQL Server” option in the data link properties pop-up.

Step 5

 

• Click the next button in the data link properties pop-up.

Step 6

 

• The Connection tab will be opened of data link properties pop-up.
• Fill in the data base details like servername, user id and password.
• Select the database on the server and click the “Test Connection” button.

Step 7

 

• A Test Connection Succeded pop-up will be shown when all the database details are correct.

Step 8

 

• On the database section of the “Edit script” pop-up click the “select” button below the “connect” button.
• Then the select statement dialog will be shown.

Step 9

 

• Select the view or table for the data analisis.
• Click the "OK" button.

Step 10

 

• The Connection string and query will be automatically saved in the script editor, you can also change this query script in this editor.
• You can also preview this view or table data using this popup.

Step 11

 

• Click on the “Save” button of the edit script pop-up menu button.
• A "Save as" dialog will be shown.
• The file will be saved with a “.qvw” file extension.

Step 12

 

• Click the “Reload” button of the QlikView menu.
• Click the quick chart wizard icon of the QlikView menu.
• The Quick chart wizard form will be shown.

Step 13

 

• Select the chart type you want to create, either bar chart, pie chart or line chart.

Step 14

 

• Click on the icon for the bar chart, pie chart or line chart to be created.

Step 15

 

• A dialog will be shown for the database details, like login id and password.

Step 16

 

• Select the columns of data used by the analisis or create a different chart.

Step 17

 

• Select the columns of data to be analyzed or create a different chart.

Step 18

 

• You can choose the style of the chart with this window.
• This Bar chart represents the number of cases of various projects.

Step 19

Bar Chart

Step 20

• Procedure to create a line chart

Step 21

 

• Select the columns of the table or view to create the line chart.

Step 22

 

• Select the columns of the table or view to create the line chart.

Step 23

Line Chart of cases of projects

 

 

Pie chart of cases of projects