What is the surrogate key? what is the use of surrogate key? how to Create surrogate key Generator in scd2 in 8.5?
Answer Posted / siva katta
"Surrogate key" which is system generated unique numeric values.
uses:
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when implimenting the SCD2 $SCD3. because these scd's are needs to maintain the historical information. so there is no way to maintain the historical information with Primary key constraint,so we are gonna generate the Surrogate key for identifying the records need to take the insert or update action.
Note :
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Surrogate key we can use for many purpose and so many cases but the above usage is one of these.
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