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Bitmap indexes are best suited for data warehouse or decision support systems (DSS). Common to the data warehouse is the star schema, in which a central fact table contains all the detailed information for a particular subject, such as customer revenue, and the number of related dimension tables containing associated reference type data on a particular dimension, such as time or geography. In a star schema, the dimension tables are the parent and the central fact table is the child table.
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© 2016 Darl Kuhn, Sam R. Alapati and Bill Padfield
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Kuhn, D., Alapati, S.R., Padfield, B. (2016). Bitmap Indexes. In: Expert Oracle Indexing and Access Paths. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1984-3_3
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