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 Star or Snowflake???

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amex45
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16 Posts

Posted - 2004-01-28 : 20:24:32
How do we decide which schema to pickup for your dimensions? The only difference is the physical implementation. Snowflake schema more normalized. Star schema is easier for direct access. Is this the only difference? If so why don’t we MS take Snowflake totally out of Analysis services?

Thanks

elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2052 Posts

Posted - 2004-01-30 : 20:00:35
I've just done the MS DTS course and the tutor on that suggested that you don't need the snowflake as you can do it all in staging and so improve performance on your cubes.

steve

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