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Snowflake Schema Offer Flexible Querying and higher Overall Performance

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A lot of businessmen consider data modeling to be a dark art performed by the enterprise IT department that provides no tangible business benefits and is simply designed to make ordinary humans feel confused and mediocre. Unfortunately, numerous IT departments really cultivate this view and, for those that do, the data modeling that they do fails to deliver any concrete advantages - disregarding the jibber-jabber they chant about it. It doesn't need to be like this. When done appropriately, data modeling can bring huge business gains to any firm, that include: u   Better quality for a host of different business activities. u   Easier access to that data. u   Resilient information systems u   Better distinguishing of products, profit and cost centers. u   Removal of repetitive and unneeded data. u   Diminished cost and enhanced incomes. In this article, the discussion is on what is a snowflake in data modeling. In order to decipher what is Snowflake mod