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What is the use of Surrogate key in BO?
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Answer / sri
When we transfer the data from the source to the target
tables i.e dimension tables,we will be having one primary
key for the dimension table,but in the scd type 2 will be
having the repetative data i.e history+current data,so we
will be using the surrogate key for the dimension tables for
identifying the
rows uniquely this surrogate is implemented in the ETL
process by using the "Sequence Generator Transformation".
The surrogate key will be act as primary key in
the scd type 2 and primary of dimension table will be the
natural key.
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Answer / ravinder singh
Surrogate key is contigeous numbers generated by DB in a
table which acts as a primary key since surrogate key has
unique values.
for eg :
101,102,103,104,105............ so onl
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Answer / bhaskar
When we transfer the data from the source to the target
tables i.e dimension tables,we will be having one primary
key for the dimension table,but in the scd type 2 will be
having the repetative data i.e history+current data,so we
will be using the surrogate key for the dimension tables for
identifying the
rows uniquely this surrogate is implemented in the ETL
process by using the "Sequence Generator Transformation".
The surrogate key will be act as primary key in
the scd type 2 and primary of dimension table will be the
natural key.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / arun
Surrogate key is a unique identification key, it is like an artificial or alternative key to productionkey, bz the production key may be alphanumeric or composite key but the surrogate key is always single numeric key. Assume the production key is an alphanumeric field if you create an index for this fields it will occupy more space, so it is not advisable to join/index, bz generally all the datawarehousing fact table are having historical data. These factable are linked with so many dimension table. if it's a numerical fields the performance is high
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Answer / mark
A surrogate key from a data warehouse schema is used to join
tables both in general SQL queries against the data
warehouse and for joining tables in the universe schema.
From 6.5.1, it can also be used as part of the keys tab
within object definition to improve query performance in
certain instances.
Given that it has no meaning outside of the data warehouse
technical sphere, it should not be created as an object.
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Answer / handy
Surrogate Key is a primary key in datawarehousing, the only
difference between surrogate key and primary key is that
surrogate key allows duplicate values but not primary key.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 2 Yes | 4 No |
Answer / chandru
Surrogate key is unique key which is used in type 2
dimension.
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Answer / kumaravel.s.t
Surrogate key is the dummy key which is used to allow the
duplicate values
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 9 No |
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