The Star Schema effectively is a denormalized schema costing extra storage. Proponents would argue this is done for performance reasons and will also emphasize the “keep it simple stupid” or “KISS” ...

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Did you know that businesses using well-structured data models in Power BI can reduce their data processing time by up to 50%? The key lies in choosing the right schema. Whether you’re leaning towards ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Brown in his position ...

Snowflake went public this week, and in a mark of the wider ecosystem that is evolving around data warehousing, a startup that has built a completely new concept for modelling warehoused data is ...

Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...