PowerPivot and the Slowly Changing Dimensions

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Slowly changing dimensions are very common in the data warehouses and, basically, they store many versions of the same entity whenever a change happens in the columns for which history needs to be maintained. For example, the AdventureWorks data warehouse has a type 2 SCD in the DimProduct table. It can be easily checked for the product code "FR-M94S-38" which shows three different versions of itself, with changing product cost and list price.

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