Home Latest Data Warehousing Interview Question And Answer Data Warehousing Interview Questions and Answer Part – 3

Data Warehousing Interview Questions and Answer Part – 3

Data Warehousing Interview Questions and Answer Part – 3

21) What is real time data-warehousing?
Data warehousing captures business activity data. Real-time data warehousing captures business activity data as it occurs. As soon as the business activity is complete and there is data about it, the completed activity data flows into the data warehouse and becomes available instantly.

22) What are conformed dimensions?
Conformed dimensions mean the exact same thing with every possible fact table to which they are joined. They are common to the cubes.

What is conformed fact?

Conformed dimensions are the dimensions which can be used across multiple Data Marts in combination with multiple facts tables accordingly.

23) How do you load the time dimension?
Time dimensions are usually loaded by a program that loops through all possible dates that may appear in the data. 100 years may be represented in a time dimension, with one row per day.

24) What is a level of Granularity of a fact table?
Level of granularity means level of detail that you put into the fact table in a data warehouse. Level of granularity would mean what detail are you willing to put for each transactional fact.

25) What are non-additive facts?
Non-additive facts are facts that cannot be summed up for any of the dimensions present in the fact table. However they are not considered as useless. If there is changes in dimensions the same facts can be useful.

26) What is factless facts table?
A fact table which does not contain numeric fact columns it is called factless facts table.

27) What are slowly changing dimensions (SCD)?
SCD is abbreviation of Slowly changing dimensions. SCD applies to cases where the attribute for a record varies over time.
There are three different types of SCD.
1) SCD1 : The new record replaces the original record. Only one record exist in database – current data.
2) SCD2 : A new record is added into the customer dimension table. Two records exist in database – current data and previous history data.
3) SCD3 : The original data is modified to include new data. One record exist in database – new information are attached with old information in same row.

28) What is hybrid slowly changing dimension?
Hybrid SCDs are combination of both SCD 1 and SCD 2. It may happen that in a table, some columns are important and we need to track changes for them i.e capture the historical data for them whereas in some columns even if the data changes, we don’t care.

29) What is BUS Schema?
BUS Schema is composed of a master suite of confirmed dimension and standardized definition if facts.

30) What is a Star Schema?
Star schema is a type of organizing the tables such that we can retrieve the result from the database quickly in the warehouse environment.

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