Difference between Transactional and Reporting Database

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A friend commented like this:

I'd recommend separating out your transactional data and your reporting data into a separate database

And another one told me:

I would implement an E-R schema in the transactional data and a star schema for the reporting database

Can anyone make both clear for me? I ask, because I really didn't get difference?

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