A surrogate is, “One appointed to act in place of another.” A surrogate key is appointed to act in place of a natural key. Why? Well, one could argue that surrogate keys existed since the beginning of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The need to unify customer and key enterprise data keeps growing as the competition in the ...

Data warehouse systems have been at the center of many big data initiatives going as far back as the 1980s. Today companies from leading cloud hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (Redshift) and ...