SCD Type II Design Decision

AzeemFarooqui at 16h24
23
Feb
2009
SCD Type II Design Decision

Hi,

I am fairly new to dimensional modelling and have been struggling with a problem for a couple of days now. I currently have a fact table which stores incidents/problems with orders that are sent to customers. The system from which this incident data is being extracted from provides full extracts as they have no effective CDC method.

So in effect every month I am getting duplicate data, for which I am updating the fact table
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