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What is a surrogate key?Why we use it in a mapping?Pl give
an example.
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Answer Posted / srinu
surrogate key is a System generated Key ( Artificial
key ),Every join between dimension tables and fact tables
in a data warehouse environment should be based on
surrogate keys, not natural keys.
There are still more reasons to use surrogate keys. One of
the most important is the need to encode uncertain
knowledge. You may need to supply a customer key to
represent a transaction, but perhaps you donýt know for
certain who the customer is. This would be a common
occurrence in a retail situation where cash transactions
are anonymous, like most grocery stores.
What is the customer key for the anonymous customer?
Perhaps you have introduced a special key that stands for
this anonymous customer. This is politely referred
to as a "hack."
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