Data Warehouse General Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How to handle multi value dimensions?

1768

What are aggregate fact tables ? why they are needed? give an example

2 9732

State any 5 of Cods guidelines of an OLAP system, brief description each?

1 5993

what is difference between Independent Data Mart Dependent Data Mart 1- 1- 2- 2- 3- 3- 4- 4-

4 21871

Is there any difference in testing database and data ware housing?

2261

Are facts same as metrics and dimensions same as measures? If not , please tell the difference?

Patni,

1 7757

What is Grain & Granularity in Data Warehouse.

TCS, TVS,

2 44885

what are confirmed dimension? We alwys give date as a conformed dimension but if it has different format for different contries say YYMMDD for italy and MM-DD-YYYY for france.Then are they not confirmed.

IBM,

1806

what are confirmed dimension? We alwys give date as a conformed dimension but if it has different format for different contries say YYMMDD for italy and MM-DD-YYYY for france.Then are they not confirmed.

IBM, MAHINDRA, Tech Mahindra,

4 7189

Disply the dname wise maximum salary

Principal Finance,

9 9205

i have scheduled a report in a job in the cognos8.3 which would send the reports to the respective user ,now the repot ran and is sent to the respective user but it contains some unwanted data. So based on the senario can any one tell me that can we recall back the report ??????

Wipro,

1579

Is it possible to have more than one row on the same table with the same foreign key?

2 5312

Name at least three brands of Database Management Systems

1 3967

I HAVE A FLAT FILE DO THE NULL CHEK AND PRIMARI KEY CHEK AND DATE VALIDITAION LOAD TO TARGET TABLE

Wipro,

1 4912

Tell me the Top 10 features of oracle that supports datawarehousing.

CTS, IBM,

2 6807


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Explain what are the modules in power mart?

555


List down some of the real time data-warehousing tools?

544


Suppose your client wants to ensure only specific users can create reports in query studio with other users creating reports using report studio. How can this be accomplished?

477


Explain when do we analyze the tables? How do we do it?

600


What is the main difference between schema in rdbms and schemas in datawarehouse?

530






Can we take backup when the database is opened?

568


How do you create surrogate key using ab initio?

535


What are aggregate tables and aggregate fact tables?

514


Explain what are the various file formats involved in reportnet?

464


What is type 2 version dimension?

556


What is informatica architecture?

590


What is VLDB?

600


What is incremintal loading?

559


Explain where do we use semi and non additive facts?

554


Explain why are oltp database designs not generally a good idea for a data warehouse?

617