Question on symmetry in Star schema

dm_modeler at 18h20
22
Jun
2010
Question on symmetry in Star schema

Hi
I read Kimball's Data warehouse toolkit and I came across a point that one
of the advantages of having star schema is - BI / reporting tools in the
market can leverage the symmetrical nature of the star schema.
From what I know and I could understand is
"any star schema would have a central fact surrounded by set of dimensions
and hence if a table is identified as fact then all surrounding dimensi
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