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By Federico Iori, 2012/11/13
SCD ETL is a typical problem in DataWarehouse.
Theory is at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension
The proposed example refers to SCD type 6 :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension#Pure_Type_6_implementation
Let's say we want an ETL that does not use SSIS.
The solution is quite simple , uses TSQL except.
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