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Star schema or snowflake schema or flat file?

Hi,

I have only one short question regarding data model.

If we have small data set than it is probably not so important how we structure our data model (all data in a one flat file).

The question is: if we have larger data sets, should we always tray to build a star schema in our data model?

Snowflake has more joins (it is more normalized) and i think we could suffer some performance penalties in case of a larger data sets.

Is my thinking correct? Please write down some opinions.

Regards,

Jurij

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ashfaq_haseeb
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Hi,

May be the attached document will help you.

Regards

ASHFAQ

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Star schema will always be better in terms of response time, RAM consumption and the actual run-time of the script versus snowflake or flat file when using large data sets.

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thanks!

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thanks!

ashfaq_haseeb
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Champion III

Hi,

May be the attached document will help you.

Regards

ASHFAQ