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Is it Mandatory to resolve synthetic keys?

Is it compulsory to resolve synthetic keys

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simondachstr
Specialist III
Specialist III

No

kuba_michalik
Partner - Specialist
Partner - Specialist

Haha, that's kind of a loaded question

Read this if you want to learn all about it: http://community.qlik.com/blogs/qlikviewdesignblog/2013/04/16/synthetic-keys and  Should We Stop Worrying and Love the Synthetic Key?

TLDR would be this: it's not mandatory, but still it's a rather good idea.

Anonymous
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It depends.

     Some are perfectly ok, like those created by IntervalMatch

     Some are a symptom of sloppy scripting

     Others are disastrous

So your question is like the infamous "how long is a piece of string ?"