1) What do you know about Datawarehousing ?

Data warehousing is used for reporting and analysis of the data. It is primarily
used to analyze data. Some of the additional uses of it are extraction and retr
ieval of data, manage, load and manipulate data. It has various tools which can
transform, load, extract and manage the data.
2) State some of the benefits of dataware housing?
These are some of the benefits of dataware housing they are: -
1) Regardless of the data source it provides common data model this feature make
s analysis of data much easier.
2) Inconsistency is identified during the loading process.
3) In case there is a crash of the database, database programmer can feel comfor
table because it is stored in the dataware housing.
4) It is very efficient and will not slow down the operational system.
3) What are the different interconnected layers of a dataware house?
There are four different interconnected layers they are: -
â ¢ Operational database layer
â ¢ Informational access layer
â ¢ Data access layer
â ¢ Meta data layer.
4) Explain about the top design?
In a top design model data ware house is designed in a normalized enterprise mod
el. This is chiefly used for business intelligence and management capabilities.
Data used for business purpose and management can be met through a dataware hous
e. It is used to generate dimensional views and is known to be good and stable a
gainst business changes.
5) Explain about the time variant feature of Dataware housing?
Dataware house detects and tracks all the changes according to time. This allows
a database developer to detect the changes across time which helps him to keep
a log.
6) Explain about the non-volatile feature of dataware house?
Data once written and saved in dataware house is static and it can never be dele
ted and over written once confirmed. It will be static and read-only. This can b
e used for future reporting and it allows good security feature.
7) Explain some disadvantages of dataware house?
These are some of the disadvantages of dataware house: -
1) It represents a very large project with a very broad scope which is a big dis
advantage.
2) Upfront costs are very huge and the duration of the project from the start to
the end user is significant.
3) It is inflexible and unresponsive to the departmental needs.
8) Explain about hybrid design model?
Due to the various risks and disadvantages presented by top down and bottom down
models it has become imperative that Hybrid methodologies be used. This is used
for fast turn around time and enterprise wide data consistency. This uses featu
res and benefits from top down and bottom down models.
9) Explain about the bottom up design?
Bottom up design provides the advantage of a quick turnaround. As soon as the fi
rst data marts are created business values can be returned. Some of the disadvan
tages caused are due to multiple versions and false truth operations. Conforming
dimensions and tight management can mitigate these risks.
10) State some of the disadvantages of data ware houses?
Some of the disadvantages are as follows: -
1) Dataware house can be costly due to high maintenance of the database. It is u
sually not static.
2) There is always a risk of it delivering outdated results which makes it less
productive.
3) A fine line exists between dataware house and operational systems.
11) What do you think about the future of dataware housing?
Dataware housing will be used by organizations to analyze their huge pool of dat
a. With the development of various dataware house appliances performance of data
ware housing applications can be improved. There would be many more apps working
in accordance with the Gartner Group report which makes it much user friendly a
nd reliable.
12) What are the general stages of use of dataware house?
These are the general stages of use: -
1) Offline operational database
2) Offline dataware house
3) Real time dataware house
4) Integrated dataware house.
These are some of the questions which might be asked they are: -
1) Explain the hierarchy of dataware house?
2) State differences between reusable transformation and Mapplet?
3) Explain about IQD file and Cognos script editor?
4) State two major differences between a dataware house and operational dataware
house?
There exist two major differences they are: -
1) It integrates information from a pre existing source database
2) It is used for analysis usually for OLAP where huge amounts of data occur fre
quently.
________
1. what is snapshot
2. what is fact less fact table? where you have used it in your project?
3. what is the difference between Datawarehousing and BusinessIntelligence?
4. What is the difference between choosing a multidimensional database and a rel
ational database?
5. Is OLAP databases are called decision support system ??? true/false?
6. what is the difference between E-R modelling and Dimendional modelling? and w
hat are semi additive facts?
7. What are non-additive facts?
8. what is the difference between OLAP and datawarehosue
9. what is the difference between ODS and OLTP
10. What is Critical key, Complex key?
11. what is iBot in siebel analytics?why is it used?where can i find more inform
ation on it?Thanks in advance.Deepthi.
12. What is active data warehousing?
13. definition of datamarts?
14. How many ways the data can be purged from cache
15. explain in detail about type 1, type 2(SCD), type 3 ?
16. Any Body Please keep questions related to Hyperion Essbase, Planning, report
s.
17. Explain the concepts of R-Image & I-Image ?
18. What is a Key MAP table?
19. I want to prepare a questionnaire. The details about it are as follows: -1.
Identify a large company/organization that is a prime candidate for DWH project.
(For example Telecommunication, an insurance company, banks, may be the prime c
andidate for this)2. Give at least four reasons for the selecting the organizati
on.3. Prepare a questionnaire consisting of at least 15 non-trivial questions to
collect requirements/information about the organization. This information is re
quired to build data wa

20. If star index of fact table get corrupted, is it possible to load it. Then h
ow do load fact table?
21. Let me know clearly what is the difference between hierarchies and levels
22. what is the difference between datawarehouse and BI?
23. what is aggregate table and aggregate fact table ... any examples of both
24. how to convert java applets into image file?
25. Why do we override the execute method is struts? Plz give me the details?
26. What is the difference between the Hot key and shortcut key
27. what are non-additive facts in detail?
28. why Denormalization is promoted in Universe Designing?