Handling "Unknown" Dimension atrributes that are Type 2 changes

meb97me at 16h58
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Aug
2010
Handling "Unknown" Dimension atrributes that are Type 2 changes

In the data warehouse we're building, we've got an Employee dimension that has a self referencing attribute called ReportsTo which stores the surrogate key of their line manager who is also in the DW (in most cases). This attribute is a type 2 change as we want to capture historical heirachical changes in the company, however some people aren't always assigned a valid manager (its a really crappy system that i w
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