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 }

What are the types of containers in datastage?

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What do you mean by staging area?

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EXL informatica Questions

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Enlist the tasks for which source qualifier transformation is used.

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What is the difference between absolute filtering and standard filtering?

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What is the size of database for you project?

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what is the difference between native sql and cognos sql?

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Define Routines and their types?

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Hi All , in PX Job I have passed 4 Parameters and when i run the same job in sequence i dont want to use those parameters , is this possible if yes then how

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What are routines in datastage? Enlist various types of routines.

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Differentiate between datastage and datastage tx?

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What are your responsibilities as an etl tester?

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what are the fact table & dimensional table in pharmaceutical and hospotal related products???

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can cubes contain measures ?

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what are _numeric_ and _character_ and what do they do? : Sas programming

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