What is surrogate key?

Answer Posted / swagatika

IN DWH environment,Every dimension table is integrated with surrogate key,which is byforced created to maintain the consistancy of data warehouse targets.It never generate the alfa numeric number of primary key & also replace the missing values.
The natural primary key ,which is coming from database is considered as alternate key in DWH Environment

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