Data Warehouse General Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is source qualifier?

2 8370

Difference between DSS & OLTP?

IBM,

6 48721

Explain grouped cross tab?

2185

Hierarchy of DWH?

Accenture, EDS, IBM, iFlex, TCS,

2 17491

How many repositories can we create in Informatica?

Informatica,

14 24424

What is surrogate key?

IBM, Informatica,

5 20235

What is difference between Mapplet and reusable transformation?

UST,

3 5659

What is aggregate awareness?

2 6589

Explain reference cursor?

1687

What are parallel querys and query hints?

1779

DWH architecture?

6 16097

What are cursors?

4 7347

Advantages of de normalized data?

2 10220

What is operational data source (ODS)?

2 9296

What is meta data and system catalog?

1844


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What is a relationship?

566


How to pivot data using informatica when you have variable amount of pivot rows?

509


Is framework manager an un-needed overhead? As we know report studio allows us to create the data model from a query and thereby skipping framework manager. Given that this feature is available, in what scenarios would one want to skip framework manager?

566


What is vldb(very large databases)?

536


Explain why dimenstion tables are denormalized in nature?

507






Suppose we want to display zero when null values coming to report how can we do that?

520


After the generation of a report to whom we have to deploy or what we do after the completion of a report?

499


What is the difference between olap and oltp?

550


Explain the difference between data ware house & data mart?

542


Explain what is a cube in data warehousing concept?

545


Explain what are snapshots? What are materialized views & where do we use them? What is a materialized view log?

510


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?

534


What is junk dimension? What is the difference between junk dimension and degenerated dimension?

584


Explain what are conformed dimensions?

562


Why is chameleon method used in data warehouse?

684