Please explain me the difference between 3 types of slowly
changing dimension in datawarehousing?

Answer Posted / venkatesh.m

scd1 ---->will contain only the updated data(ie it contains
the newly entered data + updates of historic data)it dose
not maintain historic data

scd2 ---->it contains the updated data and the historic data
(full history)
scd3 ----->it contains updated data and historic data
partially(means it may contain the records of the last
6months i think)

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