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Time Variant Database Definition

If this Time Variant Solution Design has taken you out of your comfort zone, then please pause, breathe deeply, and get ready to go back to your comfort zone. This database design is more about fitting Instance Keys and indexes into an existing data warehouse design than it is about creating a new data warehouse design. If you’re waiting for this chapter to tell you to throw everything away and prepare to start over, you’re going to wait a very long time. Rather than throw away everything you know about your data warehouse, including all those little idiosyncrasies that only a handful of people know about, this chapter will assume that you have maintained your data warehouse to the best of your ability ...

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