Rapidly Changing Dimension (RCD) in Data Warehouse

A dimension is a fast changing or rapidly changing dimension if one or more of its attributes in the table changes very fast and in many rows. Handling rapidly changing dimension in data warehouse is very difficult because of many performance implications. As you know slowly changing dimension type 2 is used to preserve the history for the changes. But the problem with type 2 is, with each and every change in the dimension attribute, it adds new row to the table. If in case there are dimensions that are…

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