what is the Surrogate key?and wt is the diff between Primary
key and Surrogate Key?
Answer Posted / rajesh s. chandan
Unique identitiy key is generated during data load process
(ETL) in the datawarehouse system is called as Surrogate
key.
It is mainly used to update slowing changing dimesion
attribute data and also it removes dependencies on key
originating in different data sources.
Primary key is uniquely identified each record in a table
with no null values.
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