
Chapter 9 Business Metadata Infrastructure
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Those familiar with data warehouse development will recognize that the
same set of issues that are used to address “Slowly Changing Dimensions”
apply here as well. Those issues include:
Is the requirement to only keep and report the latest value for the meta-
data object? In this case we “overwrite” the value of the metadata and
thus, only the most recent value can be communicated.
Is the requirement to keep a limited number of values for the meta-
data? This may be the case where the need is to keep the current ver-
sion and one previous version of the metadata value. In this case, we
must copy the curr ...