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Showing posts with label Surrogate Keys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surrogate Keys. Show all posts
Thursday, May 14, 2015

What are the reasons for introducing a surrogate key to a dimension table?

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When designing a dimension table such as Product and Employee in a data warehouse, a surrogate key is introduced for implementing an uniqu...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Reasons for adding a surrogate key for dimension tables

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As a best practice, we always add a new key, known as a surrogate key to dimension tables for identifying the records uniquely. However, gen...
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Dinesh Priyankara
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Dinesh Priyankara (MSc IT) is an MVP – Data Platform (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) in Sri Lanka with 16 years’ experience in various aspects of database technologies including business intelligence. He has done many local and foreign business intelligence implementations and has worked as a subject matter expert on various database and business intelligence related projects. He is the Founder/Principal Architect of dinesQL (Pvt) Ltd and he consults, teaches and runs training programs on data related solutions and subjects.
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