Source System contains Surrogate keys

How to design dimension and facts when my source system table itself contains surrogate key (i mean auto generated id).......
for example:
EMP
id PK
name
salary
designation
id is autogenerated sequence....... my dimension will contain this id as surrogate key but no natural key ...is it right?
if it is right then i cannot create key map table for my dimension

If the source system is generating and maintaining it then it seems like it can be a natural key in your dimension.

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Hi Guru's,
I have already uploaded master data.
I have created infosource added infoObjects to it and activated it to create communication strucure.
M using RSA1OLD transaction.
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save datasource to infosurce assigned msg displayed, clicked ok.
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Hi,
first of all please avoid bolding something. After this according Kimball (if i remember well) is a 1:1 mapping, so no-surrogate key.
After that personally you could use Lookup Table
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Is it possible to do that. As far as my knowledge goes( I have limited BI exposure) one record from source system ( read row) is transformed into one record ( row) in BI in simple transformation.
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I'm trying to load 0SD_O03 & 0SD_C03 using fullupload.
I have data in source system which I checked in RSA3.
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Want to transfer data from 2 source systems

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i want to transfer data from 2 source systems into a info cube, how can we do that and i dont want to transfer duplicate data from two source systems. like i have 1,2,3,4 records in one source system and 1,5,6,7 records in the other system.i want to transfer 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 in to the cube. can u help me to solve this problem?

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The solution given by Paolo will not work 100% correct.
Even if you create ODS and with record number as key of ODS the data in ODS will be record no 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
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*Write Customizing data to Table T000*
Description:
Exception in step "WriteProfile_1223390220410"
Exception details : com.sap.tc.lm.ctc.metamodel.exception.ActionExecuteException: Exception during the import of the profile!
State
Step finished with error
Support Information
Type of Action
WriteProfile
Debug Events
WriteProfile:Write Customizing data to Table T000
Library: sap.com/tclmconfig~bs
SourcePath ./com_sap_nw_bi_abap_default_maintain/ext_12064772269223/ext_1206447991146/Process_1207123636083/proc_1196064316796/Process_1204300420808/proc_1204300371034/WriteProfile_1223390220410
Time 2011/11/03 at 15:36:57
Schema content/NetWeaver/Common/Customizing/Clients/T000.xsd
Type : View Maintenance
Input
<TABLE_T000 xmlns:expr="http:/sap.com/ctc/expressions"><T000><MANDT>100</MANDT><LOGSYS>SOLCLNT100</LOGSYS></T000></TABLE_T000>
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<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vma="http://www.sap.com/ctc/vma"
elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xsd:element name="TABLE_T000" type="TABLE_T000"></xsd:element> <xsd:complexType name="TABLE_T000"> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="T000" type="T000"> <xsd:annotation> <xsd:appinfo
source="http://www.sap.com/ctc"> <vma:vmacontext table="T000" isupdate="false"/> </xsd:appinfo> </xsd:annotation> </xsd:element> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> <xsd:complexType name="T000"> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="MANDT" type="xsd:string"> <xsd:annotation> <xsd:appinfo source="http://www.sap.com/ctc"> <vma:vmaproperty column="MANDT"/> </xsd:appinfo>
</xsd:annotation> </xsd:element> <xsd:element name="LOGSYS" type="xsd:string"> <xsd:annotation> <xsd:appinfo source="http://www.sap.com/ctc"> <vma:vmaproperty column="LOGSYS"></vma:vmaproperty> </xsd:appinfo> </xsd:annotation> </xsd:element
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user : SOLMAN_ADMIN
password : % secure content %
host : cdsolman
sysnr : 01
client : 100
language : en
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All the others steps were finished successfully
Only this step is with error. I don´t know that to do.
Regards,
Ricardo Arriado
Edited by: Ricardo Arriado on Nov 4, 2011 6:24 PM

Hi,
Please double check the JCO user and the authorization.
Or
Apply these two notes, it should resolve ur issue
1493124 CTC: Check table existence before table whitelist
1471762 CTC: Automated Configuration:
Hope this helps u.
Best Regards
Vijay K

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