Handling late changes to Type 2 attributes

jkaszynski at 16h03
26
Jan
2010
Handling late changes to Type 2 attributes

Hi. I'm trying to find a good way to handle late changes to Type 2 attributes. Please note that I am not asking about early-arriving facts that could be handled with an inferred dimension member. Rather, I am interested in the situation where the dimension member already exists, and you find out about a change to a Type 2 attribute after the fact.

As an example of what I mean, in my client's data warehouse, each customer is ass
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