suppose data are coming from different locations and those
data will not change . is there any need to use surrogate key ?

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suppose data are coming from different locations and those data will not change . is there any nee..

Answer / suri

Yes, We should use the surrogate key, here we are geeting
data from different locations means every one have one
primary key, while transforming the data into target that
time morethan two key not in use so if you use surrogate
key it will identified the duplicate fields in dimensional
table.

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suppose data are coming from different locations and those data will not change . is there any nee..

Answer / shaj

Yes, we need to add the surrogate key in table.

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suppose data are coming from different locations and those data will not change . is there any nee..

Answer / deepthi

yes there is the use of surrogate key

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