So I am working on my second cube. In the first I used a naturally occuring key to link my dimensions and fact tables together.
For my second cube, I am trying to develop more along the lines of best practices. My dimension will have a business key and a surragate key. In SSIS I used the Slowly Changing dimension wizard. My table looks good. I have a suragate key that is the identity column for the table and an alternate or bussiness key. I have a startDate and Enddate column. I have tested updateing rows in the source and then running the package. Everything looks good.
After I have finished my ETL project and start working in SSAS, will SSAS pick up on my slowly changing dimension? Will it detect my bus key, surragate key, start and end date for the columns and make use of them? Maybe through a wizard? Are SSIS and SSAS SCDs meant to work with one another?
If I have an employee (who services help deesk tickets) that changes departments. And my employee dimension has dept and employee as Type 2 and I am tracking this. When I deploy my cube, will I see the employee in both departments? Depending on date dimension? During one period I would see him in one department, but later I would see him in the department he moved too?
Thanks,
Any advice appreciated