Capgemini SSIS Developer Interview Questions:

1. Different sources in SSIS.

2. Normalization and it types explain each.
3. different databases in SQL Server.
4. Use of Tempdb database.
5. Temp Table and Table variable difference.
6. CTE
7. Lookup & Cache options
8. Blocking Non blocking transformation.
9. Data viewer and how will you use it explain the flow.
10. check points and it types.
11. joins and its types.
12. why we are going for view.
13. which is better view or CTE when we will use on which scenario.
14. package configuration types and explain each.
15. Union all and merge transformation.
16. Error handling.
17. Error redirection Fail component, ignore failure, redirect rows.
18. President constrains and path.
19. How will you handle data in control flow.
20. Sort properties in source level.
21. Different types of commons errors in source (Excel/flat file)
22. what is cursor.
23. what is indexes and it types.
24. Different between cluster and non-cluster indexes.
25. Constraints in SQL.
26. Primary key and unique key difference.
27. what is Surrogate key.
29. Difference between Delete and truncate, what is major difference.
30. What is user define function.
31. Difference between Function and Stored procedure.
32. Data warehousing concepts.
33. Types of Dimensions.
34. Types of facts.
35. Parent package configuration.
36. Package deployment options in 2008 R2 and 2012.

Accion Labs SSIS Interview Questions

1. Difference between DTS and SSIS

2. Difference between Control Flow and Data Flow.
3. What is performance counter in SSIS.
4. What are all transformations available in SSIS.
5. What difference you are seeing between large organisation and small one.
6. View and Materialized view difference.
7. Update in view could update data in database/table ? yes
8. Query to select 10 customer with less sales for the year 2013.
9. How to extract the 1st tuple from the set.
10. How to define the default dimension in the calculation statement/query

Cognizant Sr.Associate MSBI + T-SQL Interview Questions

1. Do you know about BI Symantec Model (BISM)?
2. Have you experienced filter index partitions
3. What is the difference between sub query and correlated query
4. What is the difference between pessimistic locking and optimistic locking?
5. What are the user roles available in SSRS?
6. Can you write a query to find nth highest salary of an employee?
7. Write a query to delete duplicate records from a table. Note: Write queries that suits the below
situation. A table is having a unique key and having duplicates records, table is not having a unique
and having duplicate records.
8. What is XACT_ABORT ON?
9. How to filter nested stored procedure code from profiler?
10. How to find the number of transactions in the current scope?
11. What happens when a rollback happens in inside a nested stored procedure?
12. Example for degenerated dimension?
13. What is a bitmap index?
14. How to avoid bookmark lookup in execution plan?
15. How to avoid sort operation in SSIS?
16. When index scan happens?
17. What are the data regions in SSRS?
CTS MSBI Interview Questions
1. Difference between where and having?
2. Cast and convert.
3. Tsql merge
4. Delete duplicate records.
5. CTE.
6. Indexes.
7. Functions and stored procedures.
8. Slef join ( wit = and !=)
9. Table variable and temp table.
10. How to build the project in TFS.
11. What are the way to deploy the packages.
12. How to run the packages.
13. whats is RDBMS and its relationships how will you implement it in your project.
14. Difference between RDBMS and non RDBMS tables.
15. What are all the Data warehousing concepts.
16. what are joins and its types.
17. what is SCD and its types.
18. Blocking, non blocking and semi blocking transformation.
19. What is CDC, how you will implement it in SSIS.
20. Hierarchy data handling query.
21. 2nd highest joining date query.
22. Data sources and target in SSIS.
Accenture SQL Developer Interview Questions
1. What is RDBMS and what is the use of it?
2. Difference between where clause and having clause?
3. Difference between delete and truncate?
4. What is blocking?
5. Difference between blocking and deadlock?
6. What is No lock? What will happen if there is No lock?
7. What will happen if the blocking is accrued?
8. How do you know deadlock is accrued?
9. What is Index when will you create?
10. Syntax for Creating Clustered Index?
11. What is the Difference between Clustered and Non Clustered Indexes?
12. Which indexes are best?
13. Types of transactions?
14. When will you use implicit and Explicit Transactions?
15. Tell me syntax for implicit and explicit transactions?
16. How many non clustered indexes can we create on table in 2008?
17. What is self join when will you use and give example?
18. Difference between functions and stored procedure?
19. Syntax of Stored procedure?
20. How do you debug the SP?
21. What is view? And Explain DMV?
22. What is @@Row count option?
23. Types of joins?
24. What Is Inner join?
25. What is trigger when will you use? Give me some scenarios?
26. What is collating in query?
27. Do you have idea on performance tuning? Give me some examples which you have used in
project?
28. I entered login ID and Password click for login but it is taking so much of time to login how will
you tune for performance?
29. Syntax for trigger to update salary column in B table?
30. What is data modeling?
31. How do you find out Second Highest Salary?
32. We have two tables table A, table B

Write query to update difference amount table A and Table B table Salary in Table a (EID 1)
Using with joins.
33. Youre rating in SSIS, SSRS, and SQL?
TCS MSBI Interview Questions
SSIS
1) What is Package?
2) What is transformation?
3) What transformations you used in your project?
4) What is Derived column?
5) Where we use it ? can you explain where did you used in your project?
6) What is multi casting? Where did you used?
7) What is union all ? Where did u used?
8) Lookup? Where did you used?
9) What is SCD? What is Slowely Changing Dimension? What is the diff b/w these two?
10) Where did you used SCD?
11) How can you configure SCD?
12) Types of sources you worked?
13) Types of destinations you worked?
14) What are the delimiters in flat file?
15) How do you eliminate duplicates data in excel destination?
SSRS
1) What is Parameter?
2) How can you build sql query in SSRS?
3) How can you deploy SSRS?
4) How many types of deployments in SSRS?
5) Where we show reports to end users?
6) Have you worked on Subscriptions?
7) How many types of subscriptions?
8) How can u configure then can u explain briefly?
9) I have Country table and State table if I click on Country I need that country States? will it possible
in ssrs?
10) What is cascading parameter?
11) What is first parameter in above question?
12) Can we implement Multiple parameters in Report?
13) How to enable Multiple parameters in a Report?
14) What is Drill Down Report? can you draw it ?
15) What is matrix? Where did you used in your report?
Verizon MSBI Interview Questions:
1. What is star schema explain in real time which u done in your project?
2. Where reports are deployed and accessed ?
3. What is RS Error?
4. What are various tabs in cube?
5. What is Perspective Cube?
6. What are various storage modes of OLAP?
7. Synchronous and Asynchronous?
8. What is union all and merge?
9. If there are 5 facts and 50 dimensions tables tell me various scenarios who u link that and which is
best method? How will u analyse which method will be perfect how u choose on which criterias?
10. What is Snow flake schema?
11. Explain some scenarios in your project where u use star schema and how u implemented it?
12. Explain scenarios how u used snowflake schema in your project?
13. On which criteria you create reports?
14. How you create a report modelling?
15. What is self service report?
16. What is report modelling and how you implemented in your project?
17. What is Architecture of SSIS?
18. How will u unzip a file in SSIS?
19. What are various processing tabs?
20. What is normalization and how you implement in your project? Various types of normalization?
21. What is a View?
22. What are command line tables?
23. What are joins and explain by taking a scenario?
24. How Primary keys and foreign keys are linked among the tables in Star schema consider
employee table and explain?
25. What is SMDL?
26. What is CUBE and why we implement it and how it uses in your project explain in brief with real-
time example u performed in your project?
27. Take your time and explain in detail the flow between SSIS, SSAS and SSRS by real time
scenarios which encountered in your project and which u have worked on? If you have not worked
on all 3 at a time then tell me how and where u get files to perform your activity in detail and how you
perform and what you do after performing activity in detail with a real time example?
Wipro MSBI Interview Questions:
1) Could you explain briefly about your project?
2) How many members are working in your current project?
3) Could you explain one task which you struggle a lot in your current project? And how did you
Achieve that task?
4) What is Many-Many relationship in SSAS?
5) What is your approach when you need to do changes in the cube on customer request?
6) How many cubes your product has?
7) Explain your cube in detail.
8) What are the types of cube processing?
9) What is the use of Bulk Insert Task in SSIS?
10) Can you explain how to setup a checkpoint file in SSIS?
11) What is UDM? Its significance in SSAS?
12) What is the need for SSAS component?
13) Explain the TWO-Tier Architecture of SSAS?
14) What languages are used in SSAS ?
15) What is the difference between a derived measure and a calculated measure?
16) What is a RAGGED hierarchy?
17) How do you extract first tuple from the set?
18) Explain SSRS Architecture?
19) User wants only to display only pdf as export option in report Manager. How to achieve this?
20) Name and Describe few console utilities for SSRS?
21) Name few Endpoints exposed by SSRS 2012?
22) Describe different Processing Modes offered by SSRS?
23) Will running SSRS on Windows XP limit the number of users?
24) Are there issues when exporting SSRS reports into Microsoft Excel?
When my users are trying to export a SSRS report into Microsoft Excel, one or two
columns in the report appear to merge together. Why might this be? Exporting from
SSRS is not always perfect, even if you stay within the Microsoft range of products. If
you have extra resources, you could splurge for an add-on that offers much better
control over exporting to Excel, such as OfficeWriter. From my experience, though, it is
usually headers or footers that cause exporting issues. If any of these headers or footers
overlap with data columns in your report, you will find that the exported version of the
report has merged cells. Also, check columns next to each other to make sure that there
is no overlap, as well.

25) What are the drawbacks of reporting in SSRS?

26) What is the difference between SSAS 2005 and SSAS2008?
27) What is star, snowflake and star flake schema?
28) What are the three different part of RDL file explain them?
29) What is @@Row count option?
30) Types of joins?
31) What Is Inner join?
32) What is trigger when will you use? Give me some scenarios?
33) What is logging in SSIS Purpose of logging?
34) What is collating in query?
35) Do you have idea on performance tuning? Give me some examples which you have used in
project?
36) I entered login ID and Password click for login but it is taking so much of time to login how will
you tune for performance
37) Ranking Functions
38) Difference B/W Rank and Dense Rank
39) How can we insert one table data into another table
40) How can you debug a stored procedure
41) How many modules it has? And what are they?
42) You are working on which module?
43) How can you find out the database size
44) What is CTE
45) Query for second highest salary
46) What are the reports did you create in your reporting project?
47) Could you explain how do you create parameter report?
48) Youre rating in SSIS and SSRS?
49) I want convert lowercase letters into uppercase how do you do?
50) I am going to build the package what are the steps we have to do first?
51) What is scalar function
52) What is procedure
53) What is linked server
54) What are the magic tables
55) Delete the row in one table and insert the same row into another table