Discuss the advantages & Disadvantages of star & snowflake
schema?

Answer Posted / susanta karmakar

Star Schema: A star schema is a specialized design that
consists of multiple dimension tables, which describe
aspects of a business, and one fact table, which contains
the facts about the business.For example, if you have a
mail-order business selling books, some dimension tables are
customers, books, catalogs, and fiscal years. The fact table
contains information about the books that are ordered from
each catalog by each customer during the fiscal year.

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