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You need to design a solution that meets these requirements

You are designing a data warehouse that contains a customer dimension.
The customer dimension contains the original customer attributes as well as the most recent
set of updated attributes. When a customer is updated, the original customer attributes must
be preserved.
The customer dimension design must:
Support a Type 3 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) process
Minimize the total storage consumed
You need to design a solution that meets these requirements.
What should you do?

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A.
Design two tables. One table will hold the original customer surrogate key and attributes.
The other table will hold the most recent customer surrogate key and attributes.

B.
Design a table as a Type 2 SCD dimension that holds the surrogate key for each
customer and its attributes. Limit the number of records per customer within the table to two.

C.
Design a table to hold the surrogate key for each customer and its attributes. Add a
column to store an indicator that identifies the record as original data or recent data.

D.
Design a table to hold the surrogate key for each customer and its attributes as well as
additional columns to store the original attributes.


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