What is Snow Flake Schema design in database?

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What is Snow Flake Schema design in database?..

Answer / swamy.l.n

1.IN A STAR SCHEMA IF A DENORMALIZE DIMENTION TABLE SPLITED
INTO ONE OR MORE DIMENTION TABLE RESULTS IN THE
NORMALIZATION OF DIMMENTION TABLE.
2.SINCE THE D-BASE DESIGN LOOKS LIKE A SNOW FLAKE
STRUCTURE.IT IS KNOWN AS SNOW-FLAKE(OR)STAR-FLAKE.

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What is Snow Flake Schema design in database?..

Answer / srinivas

Snow flake schema is a database. it is having centrally
located fact table. and the fact table is surronded by
dimension tables the dimension tables are exploded.
it is a normalized schema.

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What is Snow Flake Schema design in database?..

Answer / azhar

snow flake scheama is one of the type of designs present in
database while the other one is the star schema.It is of
normalized form.

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