There’s often a discussion about what each of these autonumber/hash functions does in Qlik. We commonly see these functions used for creating integer key fields, anonymising data (for example, names in demo apps), and maintaining long string fields for later comparison (as the hashes are shorter than the strings they replace).
To do this, I’m using the script below. I’m also keen to show outputs from QlikView vs Qlik Sense, and results of running the same script on another machine.
My observations are the following:
– AutoNumber/AutoNumberHash128/256 – different output per load as the value is typically based on the load order of the source data
– Hash128/160/256 – the same output, across every load. Stays the same between Qlik Sense and QlikView, and also between different machines
