Time for action—testing the transformation that keeps a history of product changes
- In the previous tutorial you loaded a dimension with products by using a Dimension lookup/update step. You ran the transformation once, causing the insertion of one record for each product and a special record with values
n/a
for the descriptive fields. Let's apply some changes in the operational database, and run the transformation again to see how the Dimension lookup/update step keeps history. - In MySQL Query Browser, open the script
update_jumbo_products.sql
and run it. - Switch to Spoon.
- If the transformation created in the last tutorial is not open, open it again.
- Run the transformation. Explore the
js_dw
database again. Press Open SQL for [lk_puzzles] and type the ...
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