1.

Explain the situations where snowflake is better than star schema

2. How do you connect two fact tables ? Is it possible ?

3. explain the flow of data starting with OLTP to OLAP including staging ,summary
tables,Facts and dim explain the flow of data starting with OLTP to OLAP including
staging ,summary tables,Facts and dimensions.

4. What are the vaious ETL tools in the Market

5. What is ETL

6. Explain ODS and ODS types.

7. can you convert a snowflake schema in to star schema?

9. what is the datatype of the surrgate key

10. What is the difference between Data modelling and Dimensional modelling?

11. What is meant by Aggregate Factable?

12. what is the main FUNCTIONAL difference between ROLAP,MOLAP,HOLAP?

13. can a dimension table contains numeric values? Subscribe

14. what is BUS Schema? Subscribe

15. 1.what is incremental loading?2.what is batch processing?3.what is cross

reference table?4.what is
1.what is incremental loading?2.what is batch processing?3.what is cross reference
table?4.what is aggregate fact table Subscribe

16. What is ER Diagram

17. Do u need seperate space for Datawarehouse & Data mart Subscribe

18. What are conformed dimensions Subscribe

19. Explain Bill Inmon's versus Ralph Kimball's Approach to Data Warehousing.

20. Is it correct/feasible develop a Data Mart using an ODS?

21. What is the Difference between OLTP and OLAP

22. What are the various techniques in ER modelling?

23. What is the business rule for writing the requirement?

24. How do you load the data conditionally by run steps ?

25. What Snow Flake Schema

26. Why are OLTP database designs not generally a good idea for a Data Warehouse
27. What are Data Marts

28. What is a Data Warehousing?

29. what are the different architecture of datawarehouse

30. what is the life cycle of data warehouse projects

31. What is a CUBE in datawarehousing concept? Subscribe

32. What are late arriving Facts and late arriving dim ? How does it impacts DW?

33. What is Dimensional Modelling

34. For 80GB Datawarehouse How many records are there in Fact Table There are 25
Dimension and 12 Fa For 80GB Datawarehouse How many records are there in Fact
Table There are 25 Dimension and 12 Fact Tables

35. What is hybrid slowly changing dimension

36. What is ODS

37. What are Semi-additive and factless facts and in which scenario will you use such
kinds of fact tab What are Semi-additive and factless facts and in which scenario will
you use such kinds of fact tables

38. What are slowly changing dimensions

39. What are non-additive facts

40. what is rapidly changing dimension?

41. What are the various Reporting tools in the Market

42. What is a dimension table

43. What is the purpose of "Factless Fact Table"? How it is involved in Many to many
relation What is the purpose of "Factless Fact Table"? How it is involved in Many to
many relationship?

44. What type of Indexing mechanism do we need to use for a typical datawarehouse

45. What is Fact table Subscribe

46. What are modeling tools available in the Market

47. What is SCD1 , SCD2 , SCD3

48. What is a Star Schema

49. What is Data warehosuing Hierarchy?

50. What are the possible data marts in Retail sales.?

51. What is slicing and dicing? Explain with real time usage and business reasons of
it's use

52. What is the role of surrogate keys in data warehouse and how will u generate
them?

53. what is junk dimension?what is the difference between junk dimension and
degenerated dimension?

54. i want to know how to protect my data over networ.which software will be use

55. Difference between Snow flake and Star Schema. What are situations where
Snow flake Schema is bette
Difference between Snow flake and Star Schema. What are situations where Snow
flake Schema is better than Star Schema to use and when the opposite is true?

56. What is source qualifier?

57. why fact table is in normal form?

58. Explain degenerated dimension in detail.

59. what are the various attributes in time dimension, If this dimension has to
consider only date of what are the various attributes in time dimension, If this
dimension has to consider only date of birth of a citizen of a country?

60. What is difference between BO, Microstrategy and Cognos

61. how data in datawarehouse stored after data has been extracted and
transformed from hetrogeneous sources and where does the data go from
datawarehouse.

62. what is the difference between star schema and snow flake schema ?and when
we use those schema's?

63. what is the difference between Datawarehouse and Datawarehousing

64. what is data cleaning?

65. How do you load the time dimension

66. What are the Different methods of loading Dimension tables

67. What is Difference between E-R Modeling and Dimentional Modeling.

68. what is the need of surrogate key;why primary key not used as surrogate key

69. What is a linked cube?

70. What is surrogate key ? where we use it expalin with examples

71. Summarize the differene between OLTP,ODS AND DATA WAREHOUSE ?

72. what is cube and why we are crating a cube what is diff between etl and olap
cubes any budy a what is cube and why we are crating a cube what is diff between
etl and olap cubes any budy ans plz?

73. what is conformed fact?

74. What is meant by metadata in context of a Datawarehouse and how it is

important?

75. which automation tool is used in data warehouse testing?

76. what is the differences between the static and dynamic caches?

77. What is a lookup table

78. what are the steps to build the datawarehouse

79. what is the definition of normalized and denormalized view and what are the
differences between the what is the definition of normalized and denormalized view
and what are the differences between them

80. Give examples of degenerated dimensions

81. What are the methodologies of Data Warehousing.

82. What is data mining

83. What is meany by survey and extraction tables in DW?

84. What is the difference between view and materialized view

85. What is Replicate,Transparent and Linked cubes?

86. What is the main difference between Inmon and Kimball philosophies of data
warehousing?

87. what are the advantages data mining over traditional approaches?

88. wht r the data types present in bo?n wht happens if we implement view in the
designer n report

89. What is Normalization, First Normal Form, Second Normal Form , Third Normal
Form

90. what is data validation strategies for data mart validation after loading process

91. Differences between star and snowflake schemas

92. What is real time data-warehousing

93. Which columns go to the fact table and which columns go the dimension table

94. What does level of Granularity of a fact table signify

95. What is the main differnce between schema in RDBMS and schemas in
DataWarehouse....?

96. What is degenerate dimension table?

97. Information Packages(IP) are advanced by some author as a way of building
dimensional models - e.g. Information Packages(IP) are advanced by some author as
a way of building dimensional models - e.g. star schemas. Explain what IPs are and
Give an example of it\'s use in building a dimensional model.

98. What is VLDB

99. What is a general purpose scheduling tool

100. What are Aggregate tables

101. Explain the advanatages of RAID 1, 1/0, and 5. What type of RAID setup would
you put your TX logs

102. How are the Dimension tables designed

103. Why should you put your data warehouse on a different system than your OLTP
system

104. What is a level of Granularity of a fact table

1) What is surrogate key?

2) What processes are involved for building a data warehousing project?
3) What are different data warehousing methodologies and what are the advantages
of one above other
4) what is star schema
5) What is Dimension Table
6) 6 What is Fact TableWhat is Fact Table
7) what is snowflake schema and when do you decide to snowflake ,advantages and
disadvantages of snowflake
8) what are slowly changing dimensions
9) what are degenerative dimensions
10) How do you maintain history data?
11) how big is the database
12) How was the data fed into data warehousing database.
13) What are the different ETL tools used?
14) Difference between DSS & OLTP?
15) Explain grouped cross tab?
16) Hierarchy of DWH?
17) What is difference between Mapplet and reusable transformation?
18) What is aggregate awareness?
19) Explain reference cursor?
20) What are parallel querys and query hints?
21) DWH architecture?
22) What are cursors?
23) Advantages of de normalized data?
24) What is operational data source (ODS)?
25) What is meta data and system catalog?
26) What is fact-less fact schema?
27) What is confirmed dimension?
28) What is the capacity of power cube?
29) Which kind of index is preferred in DWH?
30) What is hash partition?
31) What is DTM session?
32) What is a look up function? What is default transformation for the look up
function?
33) What is difference between a connected look up and unconnected look up?
34) What is staging area?
35) What is data merging, data cleansing and sampling?
36) What is up date strategy and what are th options for update strategy?
37) OLAP architecture?
38) What is subject area?
39) Why do we use DSS database for OLAP tools?