Why is the Star Schema a Good Data Warehouse Design?

@misc{citeulike:484883, 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, Mark and Loizou, George}, citeulike-article-id = {484883}, keywords = {data, database, multidimensional, schema, star}, posted-at = {2006-01-29 19:43:17}, priority = {2}, title = {Why is the Star Schema a Good Data Warehouse Design?}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/levene99why.html} }

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