what is meant by slowly changing dimensions?
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Answer / nareshkumar
Dimensions that change over time are called Slowly Changing
Dimensions. There are three types namely,
1) Overwriting the old values
2) Creating an another additional record
3) Creating new fields
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Answer / surya
Master data occur in the OLTP system and that can't change
regularly,When the changes are occured in the OLTP
system,that changes can be handle by the dimension
tables.Such type of dimensions is called Slowly changing
dimensions.
There are three types of dimensions
TYPE1(Maintain only current data)
TYPE2(Maintain complete historic data)
TYPE3(Maintain one historic data)
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The data present in the dimension table changess from time to time.
For example .
Customer is staying in Inda now and he may moves to Us in next year.Similerly from Us to Uk and so on.
So to maintain this kind of dimentional historical information we have SCD type1,Type2 and Type3.
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