What snowflake and Starschema?

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What snowflake and Starschema? ..

Answer / bhaskar.nagi

Star Schema: Star Schema contains Centrally located Fact
table sourended by Dimension Tables. So Data Base design
looks like a Start. Fact table contains the fact information
at the lowest level granularity. Fact table contains Foreign
keys and Dimension Table contains Primary key.

Snow Flake Schema: In a star schema, if a dimension table is
spleted into one or more dimension results in normalization
of dimensions. Since the database design looks like snow
flake structure.

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What snowflake and Starschema? ..

Answer / srini madhala

Star Schema:In Star shema we have fact table sorrounded by
diemension table.Since the shape looks as a star its called
as star schema

Snow Flake Schema:

in Snow flake schema we have fact table sorrounded by
diemension table and the diemensional table have their child
diemensions.Its denormalized

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