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In this episode, Neil Strange, CEO of Datavault and Alex Higgs explore Non-Historized Links—a key variant of the standard Data Vault Link. We discuss why they were previously called transactional links, how they work, and when to use them for tracking events, transactions, and IoT data without traditional history tracking.

🧠 What you’ll learn:

00:00 - Intro

00:13 - Meet Neil Strange & Alex Higgs

00:25 - What are Non-Historized Links?

01:10 - How they differ from standard Links

02:22 - Common use cases: transactions, logs, IoT data

04:38 - Why they require additional grain

06:42 - Primary keys and unique identification

08:45 - When they resemble satellites

10:28 - Handling payload data in Non-Historized Links

11:40 - Where to learn more

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