Ab Initio Interview Questions
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Can some tell me at which level pdl gets resolved when parameters are resolved in abinitio? Also what happens in dml evaluation during parameter evaluation ?

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Whenever we load data into oracle table from staging table using exchange partition...then I read somewhere that data actually doesn't move in this and this command only reset the pointer in the data dictionary...so if data doesn't move then how data is loaded into the main table ? I mean wat is the point of pointer update in data dictionary?

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What is the return type of lookup_not_loaded() ? Does it return 0 or 1 to signify true or false or does it return index ...can someone please explain.

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How can we increase the loading performance of oracle table in AbInitio?

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What happens when we provide null key to sort, merge and pbks in Abinitio ?

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Input Data: AAABBBCC CCAAABB expected output A3B3C2 A3B2C2 How can I achieve this in Ab initio? where In output count of occurrences should be sorted from high to low

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Input A 100 NUll A NUll 200 B 100 Null B Null 300 Output A 100 200 B 100 300 Do this using Ab initio

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

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Explain what is sandbox?

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What would be the next step after collecting the data?

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How does the bre work with the co>operating system?

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What do you understand by local lookup?

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Describe in detail about lookup?

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Difference between output_index and output_indexes in reformat

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how will i can implement Insert a new record (if not present in Input file),Update the record (if present in input) a csv file in Abinitio

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Name any two stages of the data processing cycle and provide your answer in terms of a comparative study of them?

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What is the difference between look-up file and look-up, with a relevant example?

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How you can run a graph infinitely in ab initio?

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Runtime behavior of Normalize and Reformat

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What is the syntax for m_dump in abinitio?

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What do you mean by the overflow errors?

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What the difference between “look-up” file and “look is up” in abinitio?

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