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From SCD2 Bronze to a Non-SCD Silver Layer in Snowflake

This article explains a best-practice Snowflake pattern for transforming an SCD2 Bronze layer into a non-SCD Silver layer that exposes clean, current-state data. By retaining full historical truth in Bronze and using Streams, Tasks, and incremental MERGE logic, organisations can efficiently materialise one-row-per-entity Silver tables optimised for analytics. The approach simplifies governance, reduces cost, and delivers predictable performance for BI, ML, and regulatory reporting, while preserving complete auditability required in highly regulated financial services environments.

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