Describe how star, snowflake, and starflake schemas differ.

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Star schema is a logical structure that has a fact table containing factual data in the center,
surrounded by dimension tables containing reference data (which can be denormalized).
Snowflake schema is a variant of the star schema where dimension tables do not contain
denormalized data.
Starflake schema is a hybrid structure that contains a mixture of star and snowflake schemas.

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