What is a Star Schema?The simplest data warehousing schema is star schema. It consists of fact tables that refer any number of dimension tables. It is the special case schema to be considered for snowflake schema.What is a Star Schema?In a star schema comprises of fact and dimension tables. Fact table contains the fact or the actual data. Usually numerical data is stored with multiple columns and many rows. Dimension tables contain attributes or smaller granular data. The fact table in start schema will have foreign key references of dimension tables.
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