What is a star schema? Why does one design this way?
Answer Posted / nethaji
A Star schema consist of fact table surrounded by one or
more dimension tables,which represent a star like
structure.Primary key of dimension tables connect to fact
tables as foreign keys.Data is is denormalized manner.For
better query performance we would go for star schema.
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