What is Star Schema?



What is Star Schema?..

Answer / Gaurav Goel

Star schema is a data model used for data warehousing, characterized by a central fact table surrounded by related dimension tables. The shape of the star resembles a point (fact table) and its connecting lines (foreign keys) to multiple surrounding points (dimension tables).

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