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snowflake structure

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snowflake structure
In a data warehouse, the structure that is created when highly repeated fields are placed into separate tables. The resulting diagram has short and long branches extending from the original dimension that resemble the irregularities of a snowflake. Snowflake structures are generally not recommended as they slow down browsing the data.


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The giant snowflake structures ranging in size from eight to 20 feet in diameter, will include more than five miles of lighting, 15 multi-color, changing uplights and 40 strobe lights.
 
 
 
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