The request
“A veterinary billing and payments star schema with PaymentFact linked to Date, Clinic, Veterinarian, Owner, Pet, Service, and Payment Method dimensions, storing invoice and paid amounts.”
Then tryAdd an insurance dimensionAdd an invoice status dimension
What is in this drawing
Read the decisions behind it.
01
Chose a single PaymentFact fact table with a surrogate key and foreign keys to all dimension tables.
02
Modeled OwnerDim and PetDim as separate conformed dimensions rather than snowflaking the pet-owner relationship.
03
Added ServiceDim and PaymentMethodDim to support drill-down by service type and payment method.
Use this star schema whenever a veterinary business or any service-oriented pet-care organization needs to analyze billing and payment transactions across multiple operational dimensions.
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