What is slowly changing Dimension?

Slowly changing dimension are dimension data, these dimensions increasing dimensions data with update existing dimensions.

Type1: Rows containing changes to existing dimensional are update in the target by overwriting the existing dimension. In the Type1 Dimension mapping, all rows contain current dimension data. Use the type1 dimension mapping to update a slowly changing dimension table when you do not need to keep any previous versions of dimensions in the table.

Type2: The Type2 Dimension data mapping inserts both new and changed dimensions into the target. Changes are tracked in the target table by versioning the primary key and creating a version number for each dimension in the table.Use the Type2 Dimension/version data mapping to update a slowly changing dimension when you want to keep a full history of dimension data in the table. Version numbers and versioned primary keys track the order of changes to each dimension.

Type3: The type 3 dimension mapping filters source rows based on user-defined comparisons and inserts only those found to be new dimensions to the target. Rows containing changes to existing dimensions are updated in the target. When updating an existing dimension the informatica server saves existing data in different columns of the same row and replaces the existing data with the updates.