what is the use of surogate key in datastage
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Answer / navin
DW is for to maintain historical & current data.
if use Natural key as primary key in DW we can't maintain
history.so we need a physical key in DW i.e is generated by
ETL developer .In DW we have develop a key called surrogate
key.
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Answer / pavani
we used the surrogate key for the sequence(for files in order)
ex we save one dummy value in some text file that dummy
value is surrogate key value when ever we are using the
surrogate stage we have to use that file for sequence order
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Answer / shiva
WE DONT USE PRODUCTION KEYs IN OUR DW, SO WE GENERATE OUR
OWN KEYS TO IMPLIMENT DW USING THIS SUROGATE KEY.
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