Slowly Changing Facts
This article describes a design pattern for storing “effective dated" changes to fact tables.
2013-10-18 (first published: 2010-12-22)
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Describes a design pattern for using CDC to power fast and efficient incremental data loads.
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This article describes a technique of using FULL JOINs to compare two datasets within a numerical tolerance.
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