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?

517

What does level of granularity of a fact table signify?

628

What are the different methods of loading dimension tables?

563

Explain what are the modules in power mart?

574

Explain what is ods (operation data source)?

554

Explain difference between data ware house & data mart?

521

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

577

What is data type of the surrogate key?

617

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

540

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?

526

What is the difference between power center & power mart?

506

Explain what are conformed dimensions?

574

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

521

How to calculate fact table granularity?

581

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?

543


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Un-Answered Questions { Data Warehouse General }

What are the approaches used by optimizer during execution plan?

490


What are the different types of scd's used in data warehousing?

615


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?

577


Hyperion is the one of the tool in data ware house. Its an olap tool. Why you cant display that tool?

507


What is vdl (view definition language) explain?

647






What are Non-additive facts?

660


Explain techniques of error handling - ignore , rejecting bad records to a flat file , loading the records and reviewing them (default values)?

518


Briefly state different between data ware house & data mart?

566


In general, how many Fact & Dimension tables are present in a Banking Data warehouse project ?

1718


What are data validation strategies for data mart validation after loading process?

537


Explain the structure of cold fusion?

591


if you use oracle sql*loader , how do you transform data with it during loading?

1575


What is a real-time data warehouse?

591


Define Data Warehousing?

741


Explain what are data marts?

592