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how to distinguish the surrogate key in different dimentional tables?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: November 02, 2006     Asked by: mallikharjuna reddy 
  
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November 02, 2006 07:30:24   #1  
Kiran        

RE: how to distinguish the surrogate key in different ...
the Surrogate key will be the key field in the dimensions.
 
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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.  
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Used for Look-ups. It is like a reference table. It is also used in-place of ODBC, OCI tables for better performance.     
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First we execute the jobs that load the data into Dimension tables, then Fact tables, then load the Aggregator tables (if any).  
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How to distinguish the surogate key in different dimensional tables?how can we give for different dimension tables?
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