1. What is difference in select statement in T-SQL and MDX?

2. If you want to automate the task of building the cube and deploying it from development server to production server what will you do? 3. Can a fact table have non quantifiable columns? If yes can we merge 2 non quantifiable columns into one column in fact table. 4. How big was the size of the cube you built? 5. How can we write mdx scripts for partitioning? 6. How do you optimize performance of olap/rolap hyperactive cubes? 7. Which method did you use for partitioning of cube? Why? 8. Which method do you use for olap cube star schema or snowflake schema? Which one do you prefer? Why? 9. Differences between star and snowflake schema. 10.What is a hypercube? 11.What are conformed dimensions? 12.What is materialized view? What are its limitations? 13.What is indexed view? 14.On what basis did you partition the cube give an example for from your recent project. 15.How do you do performance tuning of the cube and mdx queries? 16.What did you do to optimize query performance of mdx ? 17.Where do you check the performance of the mdx queries? 18.What are calculated members and calculated dimensions? 19.What are slowly changing dimensions? Give an example? 20.What are KPIs? 21.What are differences between MOLAP and ROLAP? 22.What is a cube, measure, fact table, dimension table?

23.What are shared dimensions? How do u refresh the cube with shared dimensions? 24.How frequently do you refresh your cube?1 hr,1day,1 week? 25.How do you build the cube? What 26. are the factors u consider while building the cube?

SSIS: 1) How do you export data to multiple excel sheets? 2) What is fuzzy lookup transformation, merge, lookup transformation? 3) What is FTP task. 4) How do you do incremental update in ssis?

SSRS: 1) Which kind of reports did you generate? 2) How do you create sub reports ? 3) How do you deploy reports from development server to production server? 4) How do you do parameterized reports? 5) Limitations of SSRS? 6) How do you create sub reports? 7) What is drill down report and how do you do that? 8) How do you implement parent child hierarchy in ssrs? 9) How do you create ssrs reports from SSAS cubes? 10) What is dynamic reporting? 11) How do you deal with security of SSRS reports?

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PREPARE ALL THE QUESTIONS FROM SQL BASIC QUESTIONS LIST? Learn what each task, transformations, data flow, and control flow in SSIS? How do you deploy a package in SSIS? How to get data from OLTP to database And DB to cubes which tasks to use in SSIS? OLTP and OLAP differences? How many partitions where created based on what criteria? How many records? What is a calculated member? What is dimension, what is measure? How many calculated members were created and balanced or unbalanced with examples? Situation where you prefer star schema? Diff between star and snowflake schema? How frequently do you refresh your data or cubes 1hr, 1 day, 1 week and how do you do that Incremental loading or general? How many fact tables, measures and dimensions where there in your project? MDX reporting custom reports? What is KPI? Check point in database query and SSIS difference? Diff between MDX and SQL? Performance issues in SSIS? How do you automate process in SSAS? Issues in SSRS when pulling data from source or cubes?

Can we change the source and destination in a package already deployed? Which do you do to see the currency in different types like yangs, Indian rupees etc.? How do you increase the performance of a cube?-in different perspectives.