Data Warehouse Interview Questions
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1. How many People are part of your Team? 2. Explain how you create jobs or flow of project? 3. Join Stage vs Lookup vs Merge Stage 4. Summation scenario based question - How you find sum of salary for a specific employee (Explain stages and flow of job)? 5. Explain Remove duplicates stage ? Can you do sort in this stage? 6. SQL Questions - Joins - Types, Difference between Join and Union 7. Unix Questions - How you run the Job, How you list all jobs in project 8. Explain Environmental Variables? 9. SQL Scenario - If you have 3 Identical record in a Table, Ex: 1, Ram, Xyz; 1, Ram, Xyz; 1, Ram, Xyz; Delete only 2 of the records and keep only 1 using the Delete query. How you will you do this?

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What is Local Cache and how does it help in performance tuning

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How do you improve the performance of the Cognos Analytics report

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What will be the output of using partition by Round-Robin after the partiton by key in ab initio?

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What will be the skew for, input file->partition by key-> partition by round robin->output file

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file having these input and we have to get 3 output using same job Input 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 4 o/p1 o/p2 o/p3 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 1 4 4 4

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how to achieve this output ? Two Input columns(ID & Name) - ID | Name 1 | Jack 1 | Kara In output there should be only 1 column which will be populated as - 1,Jack 1,Kara

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what is the output when -1 is put in select_expr of FBE?

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How to replace last 4 digits of an input column with XXXX given input column has 12 digits?

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Code check-in and check-out commands in AbInitio

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Given input file with single column having 1 2 2 4 3 .. Required output 1 2 2 4 4 4 4 3 3 3.. How?

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How to process records in batches like 1-20 records in first execution and 21-40 records in second run.. so on

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How to convert a single column values 1 2 3 4 to single row of 4 columns ? And vice-versa

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Runtime behavior of Normalize and Reformat

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What will be the output when a file with 0 records is connected as input to a reformat and an output file? Note that in reformat we have assigned hardcoded values to output columns.

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Un-Answered Questions { Data Warehouse }

How to use pmcmd utility command?

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how to explain tne project at the time of interview? where to start and how to end? plz explain in detail thax in advance

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How can we store previous session logs?

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Can you define a catalog and types of catalogs in cognos?

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Can you explain the advantage of using shortcuts?

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What Proc glm does?

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Explain is there any other repository domains rather than universe, security, document?

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What is conduct>it?

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What is your spectra photometer working principles?

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What is model filter?

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What is metadata in microstrategy?

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i have taken quantity on ANx-axis & months on y-axis(months r not in oreder )when i run the reoprt i need months in proper order .how can i do this ?

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What you know about transaction control transformation?

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What are data modeling and data mining?

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Give some difference between oltp and olap.

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