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Question.3 A mapping just take 10 seconds to run, it takes a source file and insert into
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Question.4 What is difference between view and materialized view?

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Answer:ViewscontainsquerywheneverexecuteviewsithasreadfrombasetableWhereasMviewsloading
orreplicatedtakesplaceonlyonce,whichgivesyoubetterqueryperformance.refreshmviews1.oncommit
and2.ondemand(Complete,never,fast,force).
Question.5 What is bitmap index why its used for DWH?
Answer:bitmapforeachkeyvaluereplacesalistofrowids.Bitmapindexmoreefficientfordatawarehousing
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Question.6 What is star schema? And what is snowflake schema?

Answer: The center of the star consists of a large fact table and the points of the star are the dimension
tables.snowflakeschemasnormalizeddimensiontablestoeliminateredundancy.Thatis,theDimensiondata
hasbeengroupedintomultipletablesinsteadofonelargetable.
Starschemacontainsdemoralizeddimensiontablesandfacttable,eachprimarykeyvaluesindimensiontable
associatedwithforeignkeyoffacttables.
Hereafacttablecontainsallbusinessmeasures(normallynumericdata)andforeignkeyvalues,anddimension
tableshasdetailsaboutthesubjectarea.Snowflakeschemabasicallyanormalizeddimensiontablestoreduce
redundancyinthedimensiontables.
Question.7 Why need staging area database for DWH?
Answer:Stagingareaneedstocleanoperationaldatabeforeloadingintodatawarehouse.
cleaninginthesenseyourmergingdatawhichcomesfromdifferentsource.

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Question.10 What is the significance of surrogate key?
Answer:Surrogatekeyusedinslowlychangingdimensiontabletotrackoldandnewvaluesanditsderived
fromprimarykey.
Question.11 What is slowly changing dimension. What kind of scd used in your project?
Answer: Dimension attribute values may change constantly over the time. (Say for example customer
dimensionhascustomer_id,name,andaddress,customeraddressmaychangeovertime.
Question.12 Row will you handle this situation?
Answer: Thereare3types,oneiswecanoverwritetheexistingrecord,secondoneiscreateadditionalnew
recordatthetimeofchangewiththenewattributevalues.Thirdoneiscreatenewfieldtokeepnewvaluesin
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Question.13 What is difference between primary key and unique key constraints?
Answer: Primarykeymaintainsuniquenessandnotnullvalues
Whereasuniqueconstrainsmaintainuniquevaluesandnullvalues
Question.14 What are the types of index? And is the type of index used in your project?
Answer:Bitmapindex,Btreeindex,Functionbasedindex,reversekeyandcompositeindex.
WeusedBitmapindexinourprojectforbetterperformance.
Question.15 A table have 3 partitions but I want to update in 3rd partitions how will you
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Answer: Specifypartitionnameintheupdatestatement.SayforexampleUpdateemployeepartition(name)
a,seta.empno=10whereename=Ashok
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Answer:OraclefirstchecksinSharedsqlareawhethersameSqlstatementisavailableifitisthereituses.
Otherwise allocate memory in shared sql area and then create run time memory in Private sql area to create
parse tree and execution plan. Once it completed stored in the shared sql area wherein previously allocated
memory.
Question.17 Write a query to find out 5th max salary? In Oracle, DB2, SQL Server
Answer: Select (list the columns you want) from (select salary from employee order by salary) Where
rownum<5
Question.18 When you give an update statement how undo/rollback segment will
work/what are the steps?
Answer:Oraclekeepoldvaluesinundosegmentandnewvaluesinredoentries.Whenyousayrollbackit
replaceoldvaluesfromundosegment.Whenyousaycommiterasetheundosegmentvaluesandkeepnew
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