Presented By:

Abhishek Das (V1062)

Neha Topno (V1113)
Abhinav Shukla (V1061)
Praveen Singh
Bijay
 A snowflake schema is a logical arrangement of tables
in a multidimensional database used in data warehousing
 The snowflake schema is represented by centralized fact
tables
 However, dimensions are normalized into multiple
related tables
 The star schema is the simplest data warehouse
schema
 It is a denormalised model. No need to use
complicated joins
 A star schema can have any number of dimension
tables
 Fact Table
•A fact table is a table in a
star or snowflake schema
that stores facts that
measure the business, such
as sales, cost of goods, or
profit
•Fact tables also contain
foreign keys to the
dimension tables. These
foreign keys relate each row
of data in the fact table to its
corresponding dimensions
and levels
Dimension Table
•A dimension table is a table
in a star or snowflake schema
that stores attributes that
describe aspects of a
dimension
•For example, a time table
stores the various aspects of
time such as year, quarter,
month, and day. A foreign
key of a fact table references
the primary key in a
dimension table in a many-to-
one relationship
 Advantages Disadvantages

·  In some cases may ·  Increases the number

improve performance of tables an end-user
because smaller tables must work with,
are joined,  
  ·   Makes the queries
·  Is easier to maintain, much more difficult to
  create because more
·  Increases flexibility tables need to be joined
 Advantages Disadvantages

•Reduced Joins, Faster •Bigger table sizes

Query Operation because of large number
of dimension tables
•Writing queries
becomes simpler as there •Denormalized form of a
are no complex joins in snowflake schema
the ERD
•Too many rows in Fact
•Work of end- user Table
becomes easy because of
less complexity
 Snowflake Schema
· Fact Table and its contents:  metric attributes
and the foreign keys necessary to join to the
dimension tables,
 
· Dimension Tables and their
contents:  reference attributes and metric
attributes.  The dimension tables are
normalized,
 
· The lines that link the Dimension Tables to
the Fact Table,
 
· The lines that link the Dimension Tables to
more Dimension Tables.
 Starflake Schema
· Fact Table and its contents:  metric
attributes and the foreign keys necessary
to join to the dimension tables,
 
· Dimension Tables and their
contents:  reference attributes and metric
attributes.  The dimension tables are
normalized,
 
· The lines that link the Dimension
Tables to the Fact Table,
 
Thank