10 Common Mistakes When Building Analytical Data Models

Make better design choices by avoiding those pitfalls

Anna Geller
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readJul 28, 2021

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Designing a data model for analytics is not the same as doing it for transactional processing. You optimize for access patterns that are very different from row-level data retrieval used in OLTP systems. In this article, we’ll look at the most common pitfalls when designing schemas…

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