Updating fact rows inside a star schema set of tables is never a best practice. Even so, some organizations travel down this path. Consultants occasionally will go so far as to embrace the idea of ...
One creates the potential for some interesting anomalies when building a star schema wherein the fact table contains future-dated metrics and any of the dimensions are Type 2. A Type 2 dimension ...
The Snowflake model uses normalised data, which means that the data is organised inside the database in order to eliminate redundancy and thus helps to reduce the amount of data. The hierarchy of the ...