Incremental loads are inevitable in any data warehousing environment. Following are the ways to render the incremental data and test it.
1) Source & Target tables should be designed in such a way where you should store date and timestamp of the data (row). Based on the date and timestamp column(s) you can easily fetch the incremental data.
2) If you use sophisticated ETL tools like informatica or Abinitio, then it is simple to see the status of the loads chronologically. These tools store the information for every load. However it has some limitation to store the last 10 loads. You need to configure it to store for more than 10 loads.
3) If you are not using sophisticated ETL tools then you should build ETL strategies to store the statistics of the load and capture the information (like no. of inserts, deletes, updates etc.,) during the load. These information can be retrieved whenever you need. But it needs lots of technical knowledge to adopt.
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