Time Travel versus Slowly Changing Dimension Type 2

AfroInfoTech
5 min readAug 17, 2022

The motivation for writing this article is to help readers realize and recognize the opportunity to utilize the Delta Lake time travel feature when faced with a problem that involves analyzing historical versions of a record (slowly changing dimension type 2). Additionally, I hope to help readers understand when to stick to Slowly changing dimension type 2 implementation instead of time travel.

Time Travel VS SCD II
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