Employee compensation - Star or Snowflake?

jkaszynski at 18h25
21
Jan
2011
Employee compensation - Star or Snowflake?

I'm designing a data mart for employee compensation. The measures will include things such as salary and various bonuses.

Most of the data marts I've designed so far have fallen rather gracefully into a star schema. For this one, however, I have dimensions for Currency, Date and Employee. These are straightforward. Beyond this, everything else that is a logical way of slicing the data is actually an attribute of Employee in so
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