Can someone give me an easy way to comprehend the difference between star and snowflake schema?

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Can someone give me an easy way to comprehend the difference between star and snowflake schema?

2007-05-30 01:37:22 · 1 answers · asked by Jim A 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design

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Picture a basic star .

To make a snow flake take the basic star and connect smaller stars to the basic stars points. Repeat by adding even smaller stars to the ones just added... Pretty soon with just a few levels you will have geometrically increased the number of nodes

2007-05-30 02:11:51 · answer #1 · answered by MarkG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋