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BrentHamm
5 years agoNew Member
Star Schema Model Question
Trying to set up a model for our system and am struggling with how to best set this up. I made a simple model to illustrate. But let’s say we have 2.5 Mil InvoiceLines, 70,000 Customers, 100 Locat...
BrentHamm
5 years agoNew Member
So, doing it like below? Which is what i would normally do, but was just reading about Star Models vs Snow Flake models in Power BI, and that is making me look at it in different ways.
- vanessafvg5 years agoCommunity Champion
the way you model it really depends on what you trying to do. I wouldn't usually put a locationid in a customer table, specifically if there was more than one location to cutomer. I find it very rarely one needs to create a snowflake, but thats my personal opinion. It really depends on how big your model is and also what you are wanting to do with it.