Saturday 7 June 2014

Snow Flake Schema with Diagram

Snow Flake Schema
·      In snow Flake schema also same as star schema like all dimension tables related with Fact table and some of the Dimension table linked with Dimension tables only.
·      One or more dimension tables are partially or completely normalized in Snowflake schema.
·      Snowflake schemas normalize dimensions to eliminate redundancy. That is, the dimension data has been grouped into multiple tables instead of one large table.
·      The main Principle of snowflake is normalization of the dimension tables by removing redundancy of attributes and creating separate tables.





                The above diagram explains that the dimension tables of Customer, Time, Product and Geography are connected to Fact table of FactInternetSales , Product Dimension table related with another dimension table ProductSubcategory.

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