1.WHAT IS DIMENSION TABLE?

A dimension table is which contains textual description of data.

(Or)
We can define dimension table, which contains field level hierarchical of
information.
And also every dimensional table has a primary key (PK) in it, which
represents the complete table structure.
2.WHAT IS FACT TABLE?
A Fact table contains all the (FK) foreign keys of dimension table and
measures.
Measures are numeric calculations, which are key performance indicators.
3.WHAT IS YOUR ROLE AS AN ETL DEVOLPER?
As an ETL developer our role is to load data into dimension tables and fact
tables.
4.WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT MAPPINGS YOU DEVOLOPED IN
PROJECT?
Stage mappings
Dimension mappings
Fact mappings.
5.WHAT IS JUNK DIMENSION?
It stores all the flag values,
Like 0,1,YES,NO,IN PROGRESS,COMPLETED in a separate
dimension table, and it this dimension table is not related to any fact table
6.WHAT IS DEGENERATED DIMENSION?
It is a dimension, which is stored In a Fact table, but it doesnt have any
attributes in dimensional table.
Ex:

credit card number

Transaction id

7.WHAT IS CONFORMED DIMENSION?

A dimension, which is used in multiple locations is called conformed
dimension. This dimension can be used across multiple fact tables in single
database, or multiple data marts or data warehouses.
8.WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FACTS?
Additive facts: These are the facts that can be summed up through all of the
dimensions in the fact table.
Ex:sales fact tables.
Semi-additive: These are the facts that can be summed p for some of the
dimensions in the fact table, but not the others.
Ex:Daily balance fact
Non-additive facts: These are the facts that cannot be summed up for any of
the dimensions present in the fact table.
Ex: facts which have percentages ,ratios calculated.
9.WHAT IS DATA MART?
A Subset of data warehouse is known as data mart.
10.WHAT IS DATAWAREHOUSE? WHO IS THE FATHER OF DWH?
Data warehouse is a historical database, which is designed for decisionmaking purposes.
W.H Inmon and Ralph Kimball were known as father of data warehouse.

11.WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF APPROACHES IN DATA MART?

Top down approach

Extracts the data from multiple sources and transforms the data and loads into
data warehouse, then splits into individual data marts and gives acess to the
users to respective data marts.
Bottom up approach
In we extract data from multiple sources and transform the data and loads into
the individual data marts, and then integrating into the data warehouse and
gives the access to user to the data.
12.WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF DATA MARTS?
There are 2 types of data marts.
1.Dependant -a data mart that depends on warehouse.
2.Independant a data mart that doesnt depend on warehouse.

13.WHAT IS STAR SCHEMA?

A star schema is a centrally located fact table surrounded by dimension
tables.
In star schema all dimensional tables will be in denormalized form.
As the tables are in denormalized form Bitmap indexes are supported.
In the star schema every dimension table is directly linked fact table.
14.WHAT IS SNOW FLAKE SCHEMA?
When we split the denormalised dimensional tables in star schema, those
tends to normalize dimension tables and
In snow flake schema B-TREE indexes are supported.
In snow flake schema every dimensional table inter linked
15.WHICH SCHEMA PERFORMANCE WILL BE GOOD?
It depends; normally star schema performance will be good as dimension
tables in star schema are directly connected to fact table, so the query
performance will be good.

16.IN WHICH TYPE OF SCHEMA YOUR PROJECT IS DESIGNED?

I have worked on n no of dimension tables but I noticed most of the
dimensions are directly linked to fact table. But some of the dimension are
inter linked to fact table so I can say its a combination of star and snowflake
schema.
17.WHAT IS FACTLESS-FACT TABLE?
A fact less -fact table, which contains only keys and it doesnt contain any
measures (or) facts.
18.WHAT IS CUMULATIVE FACT TABLES?
This type of fact table describes what has happened over a period of time.
Ex: This fact table may describe the total sales by product by store by day.
The facts for this type of fact tables are mostly additive facts
19.WHAT IS SNAPSHOT FACT TABLE?
This type of fact table describes the states of the things in particular instance
of time. And usually includes more semi additive and non-additive facts.