Designing your Database Schema

Decide whether using a star or snowflake schema is right for you, how normalization v. denormalization affect your analytics, and what the future of database schema design looks like

Chloe Lubin
Towards Data Science
8 min readFeb 9, 2022

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Good database schema design is essential for any company leveraging relational database management systems. If time isn't spent designing a logical and intuitive database schema now, it will be spent later trying to figure out how tables are related and how to perform JOINs

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