Surrogate or Buisness Identifier during Dimension Creation??

Hi I am using OWB and I am confused in identifying surrogate or buisness identifiers ?? What are they and how do i know if a certain field is a buisness or surrogate identifier??

Consider the example where a Customer dimension is sourced from 2 different systems, there is a Customer_ID = 1 in both systems but they releate to different customers.
In this case you should assign a surrogate key to the data e.g. Customer_ID = 1 from Source System A is given a surrogate key = 100 and Customer_ID = 1 from Source System B is given a surrogate key = 101.
This enables a FK/Join between the fact table and the dimension on a single colum i.e. the surrogate key, otherwise the join would have to be a composite key of Customer_ID and Source System.
It's best practice to always use surrogate keys.
Si

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