Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Star Schema

If you draw a diagram of your dimensional tables, how a fact table is related (surrounded) to its dimension tables, you'll see a star schema. The fact table is the star's centre; the dimension tables, the corners.
Your schema can have multiple stars, one for each of your fact tables.
Note that a dimensional table might be related (shared) to more than one fact table.

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