INTERVIEW QUESTIONS OF DATA WAREHOUSE AND SQL

1. WHAT IS DATA MART?

2. WHAT IS DATA WAREHOUSE?

3. TYPES OF DIMENSIONS AND EXPLAIN EACH DIMENSION WITH EXAMPLE?

4. TYPES OF FACT TABLES?

5. IN WHICH RELATION FACTLESS FACT TABLE IS USED?

6. TYPES OF MEASURES?

7. WHAT IS MEASURED GROUP?

8. WHAT IS FACT TABLE,GIVE SOME EXAMPLE?

9. WHAT IS TIME DIMENSION?

10. DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCHEMAS?

11. DIFF.BETWEEN STAR AND SNOW FLEX SCHEMA?

12. WHAT IS GALAXY SCHEMA?

13. WHAT IS DIMENSION?

14. WHAT ARE ATTRIBUTES?

15. WHAT IS SIZE OF DATA WAREHOUSE?

16. DIFF.TYPES OF DIMENSIONS AND MEASURES USED IN YOUR PROJECT?

17. DIFF.B/W TRUNCATE AND DELETE?

18. WHAT IS SQL ORDER OF EXCUTION?

19. WHAT IS SQL SYNTAX ORDER?

20. WHAT ARE THE DIFF.B/W HAVING AND WHERE CLAUSES?

21. DIFF.TYPES OF INDEXES?

22. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TABLE SCAN,INDEX SCAN AND INDEX SEEK?

23. DIFF.B/W STORED PROCEDURES AND FUNCTIONS?

24. WHAT IS STORED PROCEDURE?

25. WAHT ARE THE PERFORMANCE SCRIPTS DO YOU FOLLOW WHEN QUERY IS SLOW?

26. WHAT ARE DIFF.TYPES OF VIEWS?

27. WHAT IS COVERING INDEX AND FILTERED INDEX, WITH AN EXAMPLE?

28. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VIEW AND TEMPORARY TABLES?

29. WHAT ARE TYPES OF TMPORARY TABLES AND SCOPE?

30. WHAT ARE DIFF.DATA BASE OBJECTS?

31. WHAT IS DEFAULT SCHEMA?

32. DIFF.TYPES OF AUTHENTICATIONS?

33. DIFF.TYPES OF SYSTEM DATABASES?

34. HOW TO DELETE DUPLICATE ROWS FROM A TABLE?

35. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ROW NUMBER,RANK AND DENSE RANK?

36. WHAT IS CASE STATEMENT?

37. DIFF.TYPES OF VARIABLES?

38. DIFF.TYPES OF CONSTRAINTS AVAILABLE IN SQL?

39. DIFF.TYPES OF JOINS?

40. WHAT IS IDENTITY?

41. HOW TO CHECK CURRENT IDENTITY VALUE?

42. HOW TO RESEED THE CURRENT IDENTITY VALUE?

43. HOW TO INSERT THE RECORD INTO IDENTITY COLUMN?

44. WHAT IS COMPOSITE PRIMARY KEY?

45. CAN WE CREATE NON-CLUSTERED INDEX ON A PRIMARY KEY COLUMN?

46. HOW MANY CLUSTERED INDEX CAN BE CREATED ON A TABLE?

47. HOW MANY PRIMARY KEYS CAN BE CREATED ON A TABLE?

48. BY DEFAULT,WHICH INDEX WILL BE CREATED ON A PRIMARY KEY COLUMN?

49. ON UNIQUE CONSTRAINT WHICH INDEX WILL BE CREATED?

50. HOW THE CLUSTERED INDEX WORKS?

51. WHY DO ONLY ONE CLUSTERED INDEX FOR TABLE?

52. WHAT IS DIFF.B/W DATE ADD() AND DATE() FUNCTIONS?

53. HOW TO GET FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH AND END OF THE MONTH?

54. DIFF.TYPES OF USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS?

55. HOW TO FIND TOP 2 SALARY OF EMPLOYEE?

56. WHAT IS DEFAULT ISOLATION LEVEL?

57. HOW TO OVERCOME DEFAULT ISOLATION?

58. DIFF.B/W REORGANISE AND REBUILT?

59. WHAT IS THE PAGE SIZE IN SQL SERVER?

60. DIFF.B/W ROW STORED AND COLUMN STORED INDEX?

61. WHAT ARE NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN SQL 2012 SERVER?

62. DIFF.B/W UNION AND UNION ALL?

63. WHAT ARE DIFF.FILES THAT WHERE CREATED ,WHEN WE CREATE DATABASE?

64. CAN WE ENTER NULL VALUES INTO FOREIGN KEY?

65. DIFF.B/W COMMIT AND ROLL BACK?

66. WHAT IS THE USE OF SP_HELPTEXT AND SP_HELP?

67. WHAT IS COMPOSITE INDEX?

68. DIFF.B/W DATETIME AND DATETIME2 DATA TYPES?

69. WHAT IS THE USE OF SP_SPACEUSED'TABLENAME'?

70. HOW TO GET THE NAME OF THE MONTH IN A DATE?

71. DIFF.B/W CAST AND CONVERT FUNCTION?

72. DIFF. B/W REPLACE,PATINDEX AND CHARINDEX?

73. DIFF.B/W REPLACE AND STUFF?

74. WHAT ARE PARAMETERS USED IN FUNCTIONS?

75. WHAT ARE PARAMETERS USED IN PROCEDURES?

76. HOW AVG() WORKS?

77. ERROR HANDLING IN SQL SYNTAX?

78. DEFAULT SORTING ORDER IN SQL SERVER?

79. DISPLAY THE NAME OF EMPLOYEE WITH MAXIMUM SALARY?

80. DISPLAY THE PROD.CATEGORY AND NUMBER OF PRODUCTS WITH IN THE EACH GROUP!

81. DISPLAY THE EMPLOYEES HAVING HIGHEST SALARY IN THEIR RESPECTIVE DEPT!

82. DIFF.TYPES OF LIKE OPERATORS?

83. IS THERE DIFF.B/W BETWEEN & <=AND>=?

84. WHT ARE AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS IN SQL?

85. DIFF.B/W FLOOR AND CEILING?

86. HOW TO GET A UNIQUE VALUES FROM A COLUMN IN A TABLE?

87. DISPLAY COUNT OF EMP.DEPT WISE!

88. HOW TO DISPLAY BOTTOM 2 EMPLOYEES BY A SALARY IN A TABLE?

89. HOW TO CREATE A TABLE BY COPYINGDATA STRUCTURE TO ANOTHER?

90. HOW TO DISPALY EMP.DETAILS WHOSE SALARY IS GREATER THAN THE AVG.SALARY OF DEPT
10?

91. DEFAULT FORMAT OF SQL SERVER?

92. HOW T OREAD THE COLUMN NAMES IN A PARTICULAR DATABASE/TABLE?

93. WHAT ARE ADVANTAGES OF CREATING CONSTRAINTS ON A TABLE?

94. HOW TO DELETE ENTIRE ROWS FROM A TABLE?

95. DELETE OR TRUNCATE WHICH IS FAST?

96. HOW TO GET COUNT OF NULL VALUES FROM A TABLE?

97. DIFF.B/W CHAR AND NVARCHAR?

98. DIFF.TYPES OF SET OPERATORS?

 99. HOW TO GET YEAR WISE SUM OF SALES AMOUNT?

100. IN 'WHERE' CONDITION,THE WINDOWS FUNCTION WILL BE USED OR NOT?

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ON SSIS

1. WHAT AREDIFF.TYPES OF PACKAGE CONFIGURATIONS AVAILABLE IN SSIS?

2. WHAT ARE BLOCKING AND UNBLOCKING TRANSFORMATIONS?

3. HOW TO REMOVE DUPLICATES FROM THE SOURCE?

4. DIFF.B/W MERGE AND UNION ALL?

5. DIFF.TYPES OF PROVIDERS IN SSIS LOGGING?

6. WHAT IS TYHE USE OF CHECK POINTS,WHAT ARE THREE OPTIONS USED IN CHECK POINTS?

7. WAHT IS THE USE OF TRANSACTIONS IN SSIS?

8. WHAT IS THE USE OF PACKAGE CONFIGURATIONS?

9. WAHT ARE DIFF.TYPES OF DEPLOYEMENT MODELS IN SSIS?

10. HOW MANY DIFF.WAYS OF DEPLOYEMENT?

11. WHAT IS THE USE OF SEQUENCE CONTAINER?

12. WHAT IS THE USE OF FILE SYSTEM TASK?

13. WHAT IS THE USE OF BULK INSERT TASK?

14. DIFF.B/W DERIVED COLUMN AND COPY COLUMN?

15. DIFF.B/W FOR LOOP AND FOR EACH LOOP CANTAINER?

16. WHAT IS THE USE OF EXECUTE PACKAGE TASK?

17. WHAT IS THE USE OF RECOUNT TRANFORMATION?

18. WHAT IS THE USE OF DELAY VALIDATION PROPERTY?

19. WAHT IS CONTROL FLOW?

20. WHAT IS DATA FLOW?

21. WHAT ARE DIFF.TYPES OF CONNECTION MANAGERS?

22. DIFF.B/W MERGE AND UNION?

23. HOW TO OVERCOME SORT(BLOCKING) TRANFORMATION IN MERGE?

24. WHAT ARE PERFORMANCE STEPS FOLLOW IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE PACKAGE EXECUTION?

25. HOW TO IMPLEMENT AUDIT LOGGING AND CUSTOM ERROR LOGGING IN PACKAGE?

26. WHAT IS THE DIFFICULT PACKAGE ,YOU HAVE IMPLEMENTED IN YOUR PACKAGE?

27. WHAT ARE DIFF.TYPES OF ROW TRANFORMATIONS,YOU HAVE USED IN YOUR PACKAGE?

28. WHAT IS THE USE OF LOOKUP TRANSFORMATONS?

29. WHAT ARE DIFF.TYPES OF SOURCES YOU HAVE USED IN YOUR PACKAGE?

30. WHAT IS ROW DELIMITER AND COLUMN DELIMITER?

31. WHAT ARE BREAK POINTS?

32. WHAT ARE DATA VIEWERS?

33. HOW TO CONFIGURE ERROR OUTPUT?

34. WHAT ARE VARIABLES AND ITS SCOPE?

35. HOW TO CALL A STORED PROCEDURE'S IN A EXECUTE SQL TASK WITH A PARAMETER?

36. WHAT ARE NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN SSIS 2012?