suppose data are coming from different locations and those
data will not change . is there any need to use surrogate key ?

Answer Posted / suri

Yes, We should use the surrogate key, here we are geeting
data from different locations means every one have one
primary key, while transforming the data into target that
time morethan two key not in use so if you use surrogate
key it will identified the duplicate fields in dimensional
table.

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