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Question:  Importance of Surrogate Key in Data warehousing? 



Answer: Surrogate Key is a Primary Key for a Dimension table. Most importance of using it is it is independent of underlying database. i.e Surrogate Key is not affected by the changes going on with a database. 



January 01, 2007 03:45:41 #5
 vara   Member Since: Visitor    Total Comments: N/A 

RE: Importance of Surrogate Key in Data warehousing?&n...
 
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