Data Warehouse General Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Explain what is fact less fact table? Where you have used it in your project?

513

What does level of granularity of a fact table signify?

622

What are the different methods of loading dimension tables?

559

Explain what are the modules in power mart?

566

Explain what is ods (operation data source)?

546

Explain difference between data ware house & data mart?

520

Explain what is the difference between view filter and report filter?

570

What is data type of the surrogate key?

613

Where the applications and where ware house management system is used?

534

Suppose we have some 10,000 odd records in source system and when load them into target.how do we ensure that all 10,000 records that are loaded to target doesnt contain any garbage values?

524

What is the difference between power center & power mart?

502

Explain what are conformed dimensions?

566

Explain what is a staging area? Do we need it? What is the purpose of a staging area?

513

How to calculate fact table granularity?

575

How many clustered indexes can you create for a table in dwh? In case of truncate and delete command what happens to table, which has unique id 347 what is hybrid slowly changing dimension?

541


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Un-Answered Questions { Data Warehouse General }

What is a full backup?

538


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

2270


What is surrogate key? Where we use it?

569


What is Analysis Services?

1641


Explain what is the main difference between inmon and kimball philosophies of data warehousing?

523






Explain what are slowly changing dimensions?

607


Why fact table is in a normal form?

555


What is the difference between drill through and masterdetail reports?

538


Explain what are the possible data marts in retail sales?

502


Explain differences between star and snowflake schemas?

532


Explain how to get the first 100 rows from the flat file into the target?

522


What is Discrete and Continuous data in Data mining world?

2114


How to design file watch jobs?

576


What are the various methods of getting incremental records or delta records from the source systems?

527


How would you declare an inline css to format the table with a background color of yellow and give the table cell a right margin of 10 pixels?

529