A star schema aims to separate the factual information about a business from its descriptive, or “dimensional” information. Prices, weights, speeds, and quantities are all considered factual data.

Steps to create a Star Schema: Identify fact and dimension tables, load data, define relationships. Example of Star Schema: Fact Table (Sales), Dimension Tables (Stores, Products, Dates).

If you plan to do database development with Java and MySQL, the first thing you’ll need to do is configure a database schema. Technically speaking, the first thing to do before you configure a schema ...

Yahoo’s data and business intelligence architect, Rohit Chatter, answers the latest debate, Star versus Snowflake schema, by breaking down the differences, one aspect at a time.

Ariga, an Israeli startup, has come up with a way to write database schema as code with an open source and SaaS version of the solution.