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star schema

A data warehouse design that enhances the performance of multidimensional queries on traditional relational databases. One fact table is surrounded by a series of related tables. Data are joined from one of the points to the center, providing a so-called "star query." See OLAP.

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Section 3 presents a Z specification of a data warehouse star schema and illustrates the utility of discharging a proof obligation arising from the specification.

Towards a Framework Embedding Formalisms for Data Warehouse Specification and Design

* UPDATING FACT ROWS inside a star schema set of tables is never a best practice.

Updating facts is not a good practice

Indexing OLAP data and joining indices was as follows Join index: JI(R-id, S-id) where R (R-id, ...) S (Sid, ...), traditional indices map and the values to a list of record ids, it materializes relational join in JI file and speeds up relational joining rather costly operation in data warehouses, join index relates the values of the dimensions of a star schema to rows in the fact table illustrated from fact table Sales and two dimensions city and product.

An overview of data warehousing and OLAP technology

The most natural way to model a data warehouse is as a star schema, which is the simplest DW model.

An approach for generating an XML data warehouse schema using model transformation language

Multi-Dimensional Entity Relationship (ME/R) Model: The data warehouse Reverse Engineering (RE) provides the ME/R model or star schema. It provides schema in XML format which can be explored for keyword matching further.

A NATURAL LANGUAGE BASED RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR THE DATA WAREHOUSE

In this case, the fact table will not have only one level of dimensions tables so this is why snowflake schema is better suited than the star schema for the modelling (Adamson, 2010).

Optimal data architecture for an telemedicine analytic platform

This guide to best practices in dimensional design provides information on star schema design techniques for data warehouses.

The complete reference star schema

Taking the relationship type Cont ribut ion in Figure 7 as core type of a star schema, the subschema containing Contribution, Member, Document, Project, and Time defines another star structure.

Using meta-structures in database design

A star schema requires that a dimension hierarchy is contained with in a single table.

Application of the OLAP cubes technology in the data mining

(a) Transforming to Star Schema: The individual historical data is transformed into star schema.