General Datawarehousing Interview Questions and Answers

1 :: What is Normalization, First Normal Form, Second Normal Form, Third Normal Form?

1.Normalization is process for assigning attributes to entities?Reducesdata redundancies?Helps eliminate data anomalies?Produces controlledredundancies to link tables

2.Normalization is the analysis offunctional dependency between attributes / data items of userviews􀁺It reduces a complex user view to a set of small andstable subgroups of fields / relations

1NF:Repeating groups must beeliminated, Dependencies can be identified, All key attributesdefined,No repeating groups in table

2NF: The Table is already in1NF,Includes no partial dependencies?No attribute dependent on a portionof primary key, Still possible to exhibit transitivedependency,Attributes may be functionally dependent on non-keyattributes

3NF: The Table is already in 2NF, Contains no transitivedependencies

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2 :: Explain piconet?

The original Piconet was a USB-style expansion port on RM Nimbus computers.

These days, a piconet is an ad-hoc computer network linking a user group of devices using Bluetooth technology protocols to allow one master device to interconnect with up to seven active slave devices (because a three-bit MAC address is used). Up to 255 further slave devices can be inactive, or parked, which the master device can bring into active status at any time.

A piconet typically has a range of about 10 m and a transfer rate between about 400 and 700 kbit/s, depending on whether synchronous or asynchronous connection is used.

All Parked Slaves have 8 bit parked member address (PMA) and all the active slaves have 3 bit active member address (AMA). The AMA is used by the master to send packets to a specific slave and to identify that the slave has sent a response packet.

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3 :: Explain What are the Different methods of loading Dimension tables?

Conventional Load:
Before loading the data, all the Table constraints will be checked against the data.

Direct load:(Faster Loading)
All the Constraints will be disabled. Data will be loaded directly.Later the data will be checked against the table constraints and the bad data won't be indexed.

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4 :: What is ODS?

1. ODS means Operational Data Store.

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2. A collection of operation or bases data that is extracted from operation databases and standardized, cleansed, consolidated, transformed, and loaded into an enterprise data architecture. An ODS is used to support data mining of operational data, or as the store for base data that is summarized for a data warehouse. The ODS may also be used to audit the data warehouse to assure summarized and derived data is calculated properly. The ODS may further become the enterprise shared operational database, allowing operational systems that are being reengineered to use the ODS as there operation databases.

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5 :: Explain me What are Data Marts?

Data Marts are designed to help manager make strategic decisions about their business.

Data Marts are subset of the corporate-wide data that is of value to a specific group of users.

There are two types of Data Marts:

1.Independent data marts ? sources from data captured form OLTP system, external providers or from data generated locally within a particular department or geographic area.

2.Dependent data mart ? sources directly form enterprise data warehouses.

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