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jim_chan
Specialist
Specialist

interval match

Hi guys,

I was working on intervalmatch on sales. min_sales and max_sales. Now, there's a synthetic key. How can i solve it?

synthetic_key.jpg

Rgds,

Jim

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Yes, Join is preferred while working with synthetic keys in interval match.

Check this as well?

Removing synthetic keys when using Interval Match

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varshavig12
Specialist
Specialist

Anil_Babu_Samineni

Why not noconcatenate between two directories

Best Anil, When applicable please mark the correct/appropriate replies as "solution" (you can mark up to 3 "solutions". Please LIKE threads if the provided solution is helpful
Anonymous
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Did you check this?

IntervalMatch

jim_chan
Specialist
Specialist
Author

yeah , i did follow. and thats y i got a synthetic key table. i am just wondering, how can i get rid of it.

some told me use left join, some told me to create a key.

Rgds

Jim

Anonymous
Not applicable

Yes, Join is preferred while working with synthetic keys in interval match.

Check this as well?

Removing synthetic keys when using Interval Match

jim_chan
Specialist
Specialist
Author

read, it actually says need not to remove the synthetic key.  what do you think?

arulsettu
Master III
Master III

in this case left join is preferable. i also used that

jim_chan
Specialist
Specialist
Author

It says--- a left join will add columns to the fact table - which will increase the memory usage. A solution without a left join could probably use less memory.

arulsettu
Master III
Master III

have you tried nocancatenate ?