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Filter Expression Router Sorter Rank Transaction Control Source Qualifier Stored Procedure SQL Transformation Normalizer Sequence Generator Aggregator Union Joiner Update Strategy Look Up

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2. W hat are Data Marts? 3. W hat is ER Diagram? 4. W hat is a Star Schema? 5. W hat is Dimensional Modelling? 6. W hat Snow Flake Schema? 7. W hat are the Different methods of loading Dimension tables? 8. W hat are Aggregate tables? 9. W hat is the Difference between OLTP and OLAP? 10. W hat is ETL?

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11. W hat are the various ETL tools in the Market? 12. W hat are the various Reporting tools in the Market? 13. W hat is Fact table? 14. W hat is a dimension table? 15. W hat is a lookup table? 16. W hat is a general purpose scheduling tool? Name some of them? 17. W hat are modeling tools available in the Market? Name some of them? 18. W hat is real time data-warehousing? 19. W hat is data mining? 20. W hat is Normalization? First Normal Form, Second Normal Form , Third Normal Form? 21. W hat is ODS? Subscribe Delivered by FeedBurner Enter your email address:

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22. W hat type of Indexing mechanism do we need to use for a typical Data warehouse? 23. W hich columns go to the fact table and which columns go the dimension table? (My user needs to see <data element<data element broken by <data element<data element> All elements before broken = Fact Measures All elements after broken = Dimension Elements Necessity Of Performance-tuning Identification Of bottle Necks Optimization of Bottle necks Performance tuning of Lookup Push Down Optimization

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Mapping Parameter's & Variable Mapplets Partitioning Working with links Scheduler Types of Task's- 1 Types of Task's- 2 Indirect Method for Loading SCD - Type 1 SCD - Type 2 SCD - Type 3 Incremental Aggregation Mapping Templates Grid Processing Work Flow Variables

24. W hat is a level of Granularity of a fact table? What does this signify? (Weekly level summarization there is no need to have Invoice Number in the fact table anymore) 25. How are the Dimension tables designed? De-Normalized, Wide, Short, Use Surrogate Keys, Contain Additional date fields and flags. 26. W hat are slowly changing dimensions? 27. W hat are non-additive facts? (Inventory,Account balances in bank) 28. W hat are conformed dimensions? 29. W hat is VLDB? (Database is too large to back up in a time frame then it's a VLDB) 30. W hat are SCD1, SCD2 and SCD3? Reactions: Excellent (27) Good (7) Useful (9)

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