1)what do you mean by Full process load and incremental loads Refresh Load: the table will be truncated

and data will be loaded again. Here we use to load static dimension table or type tables using this method. Incremental Load: It is a method to capture on the newly created or updated reco rd. Based upon the falg or Date this load will be performed. Full Load: when we are loading the data for first time, either it may be a base load or history all the set of records will be loaded at a strech depends upon t he volume. 2)what is data cleansing? Data cleaning, also called data cleansing or scrubbing, deals with detecting and removing errors and inconsistencies from data in order to improve the quality of data. 3)How do you handle changing dimensions? There are multiple methods to handle the slowly changing dimensions. Which techn ique to use depends on your business requirements. The choice among these three methods are not a technical design decision since their behaviors are different. Type One: Overwite the old data with new data Type Two: Add a new record at the timeof the change Method A No surrogate key Use timestamp Method B No surrogate key Use version number. Method C Use a surrogate key Type Three: Track changes using a separate column This method is used when the changes is not randon but a predefined interval suc h as annual. 4)What is a star-schema and example of star schema? A star schema consists of fact tables and dimension tables. Fact tables contain the quantitative or factual data about a business--the information being queried . This information is often numerical, additive measurements and can consist of many columns and millions or billions of rows. Dimension tables are usually smal ler and hold descriptive data that reflects the dimensions, or attributes, of a business. SQL queries then use joins between fact and dimension tables and const raints on the data to return selected information. 5)What is a snow flake schema and example of star schema? In computing, a snowflake schema is a logical arrangement of tables in a multidi mensional database such that the entity relationship diagram resembles a snowfla ke in shape. The snowflake schema is represented by centralized fact tables whic h are connected to multiple dimensions. The snowflake schema is similar to the star schema. However, in the snowflake sc hema, dimensions are normalized into multiple related tables, whereas the star s chema's dimensions are normalized with each dimension represented by a single ta ble. A complex snowflake shape emerges when the dimensions of a snowflake schema are elaborate, having multiple levels of relationships, and the child tables ha ve multiple parent tables ("forks in the road"). The "snowflaking" effect only a ffects the dimension tables and NOT the fact tables. 6)what is ODS? An operational data store (or "ODS") is a database designed to integrate data fr om multiple sources for additional operations on the data. The data is then pass ed back to operational systems for further operations and to the data warehouse for reporting. 7)Views and Materialized Views Materialized views are disk based and update periodically base upon the query de finition. Views are virtual only and run the query definition each time they are accessed.

8)Partitioning Index Difference between DSS & OLTP? Hierarchy of DWH? What is surrogate key? DWH architecture? Advantages of de normalized data? What is meta data What is factless fact table? What is confirmed dimension? What is the difference between business key and surrogate key ?why business key not used as surrogate key difference between Datawarehouse and Datawarehousing What are the steps to build the data warehouse? what are different ETL tools available in the market? what are different Reporting tools available in the market? How do you join the data from multiple Data Marts ? if so what would be the crit eria? What is a dimension table What is fact table What is normalization, first normal form, second normal form , third normal form What is the difference between oltp and olap Diff type of facts..each type with an example What is data integration Different methods of loading Dimension tables What are Aggregate tables What is data mining What are data marts what is difference between logical model and Physical? Difference between E-R Modeling and Dimensional Modeling What is the main differnce between schema in RDBMS and schemas in DataWarehouse? Can a dimension table contains numeric values? What is etl What is a level of granularity of a fact table and what does it signify? Explain Bill Inmon's versus Ralph Kimball's Approach to Data Warehousing? how data in datawarehouse stored after data has been extracted and transformed f rom hetrogeneous sources? What is SCD1 , SCD2 , SCD3 ? can we connect two fact tables? What is slicing and dicing? What are modeling tools available in the Market? how do you load time dimension? What is a general purpose scheduling tool? tools that are used in the market? Different types of dimensions? each with an example? what are different of Fact tables what are ROLAP,MOLAP,HOLAP? what is BUS Matrix?