• Tedamoh ACADEMY

    Secret Spice

8 reasons why temporal data is needed

There's a question that comes up in every workshop sooner or later: "Do we really need this complexity?" What people mean is bitemporal historization – two timelines instead of one, a few more columns, more logic when loading. It's a fair question.

TEDAMOH - Secret Spice Data Vault timeline - Picture by Parrish Freeman on Unsplash

Does the Load Date Timestamp (LDTS) data element in the hub, link, or satellite capture the timestamp of the batch, or rather the transaction timestamp at which the data originated in the operational system?