What are the different types of schemas?

Answer Posted / vignesh muralidharan

three types of schemas are availble.Star schema,star flake
schema & snow flake schema.

Star schema:It is highly denormalised,so we can retrieve
the data very fast.

Star flake schema:Only one dimension contain one level of
hierachy key.

Snow flake schema:It is highly normalised,so retrievel of
data is slow.

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