Why should we use star schema in datawarehouse design?

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Why should we use star schema in datawarehouse design?..

Answer / arun

Star schema has less joins within its related dimensions so query retreival is faster than SNow-flake.

Space consumed is more than snow-flake

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Why should we use star schema in datawarehouse design?..

Answer / jz

1) Query performance is high.
2) It consume less space compare to SnowFlake.

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