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		mulmen on Nov 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldi... Snowflake is a type of multidimensional schema. It's a normalized star schema. Both named for the appearance of their entity relationship diagrams.

chatmasta on Nov 27, 2024 [–]

Snowflake schema is obviously the etymology, but the official story is that the founders “really like skiing.” It’s always aggravated me. I just assume the CEO told them to go with that instead.

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