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Snowflake is a type of multidimensional schema. It's a normalized star schema. Both named for the appearance of their entity relationship diagrams.
by mulmen 2y ago
Snowflake is a type of multidimensional schema. It's a normalized star schema. Both named for the appearance of their entity relationship diagrams.
- chatmasta 2y agoSnowflake schema is obviously the etymology, but the official story is that the founders “really like skiing.” It’s always aggravated me. I just assume the CEO told them to go with that instead.