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4 questions in Slowly Changing Dimensions.

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A "customers by segment" dashboard tile reports 104,300 where the customer table holds 100,000 rows. Revenue on the same dashboard is also about 4% high. The join looks correct, the pipeline is green, and re-running changes nothing. What is happening?

A customer's attribute changes. Which slowly-changing-dimension approach should be used, and what decides it?

A retail platform's product attributes change over time, and historical reports must reflect the values as they were. What modelling approach handles this?

The business asks why the regional sales report changed for a period that closed six months ago. What happened, and what is the fix?