Why is the snowflake schema a good data warehouse design Export

@misc{citeulike:484879, abstract = {Database design for data warehouses is based on the notion of the snowflake schema and its important special case, the star schema. The snowflake schema represents a dimensional model which is composed of a central fact table and a set of constituent dimension tables which can be further broken up into subdimension tables. We formalise the concept of a snowflake schema in terms of an acyclic database schema whose join tree satisfies certain structural properties. We then define a normal form...}, author = {Levene, M. and Loizou, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {484879}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.3808}, keywords = {data, schema, snowflake, warehouse}, posted-at = {2006-01-29 19:37:38}, priority = {2}, title = {Why is the snowflake schema a good data warehouse design}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.3808} }

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