SCD: Slowly Changing Dimension:

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Dimension table: (PK+Attributes)

customer
product
account
user
employee
region
location
time
store
merchant

Type: 1 - No history will be maintained

Simple update

Type: 2 - History will be maintained

Row level history

Method - 1 - Flag
Method - 2 - Version
Method - 3 - Date

Type: 3 - Recent history will be maintained

Column level history

Surrogate Key:

create table S_customer_scd

(
Customer_id number(10) primary key,
First_name varchar2(30),
Mobile varchar2(30),
Address1 varchar2(30),
Zipcode number(6),
Country varchar2(30));

create table t_customer_scd_flag

(
Customer_key number(10) primary key,
Customer_id number(10),
First_name varchar2(30),
Mobile varchar2(30),
Address1 varchar2(30),
Zipcode number(6),
Country varchar2(30),
flag number(1));
 create table t_customer_scd_version
(
Customer_key number(10) primary key,
Customer_id number(10),
First_name varchar2(30),
Mobile varchar2(30),
Address1 varchar2(30),
Zipcode number(6),
Country varchar2(30),
version number(4));

create table t_customer_scd_date

(
Customer_key number(10) primary key,
Customer_id number(10),
First_name varchar2(30),
Mobile varchar2(30),
Address1 varchar2(30),
Zipcode number(6),
Country varchar2(30),
eff_date date,
end_date date);

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select column_name from T_Customer_Version

where (cust_id,version) in (select cust_id,max(version) from
T_Customer_Version group by cust_id);