What is Dimensional Modelling

Latest Answer: It is logical design techniques and visual techinques it can be

contain aggregate table, dimension table, fact table ...

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What is the Difference between OLTP and OLAP

Answered by swetha on 2005-03-30 12:00:33: OLTP Current data Short

database transactions Online update/insert/delete Normalization is
promoted High volume transactions Transaction
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What is surrogate key ? where we use it expalin with examples

don't know
Latest Answer: We can say "Surrogate key" is a User defined primary

key.. ...
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What are Data Marts

Data Mart is a segment of a data warehouse that can provide data for
reporting and analysis on a section, unit, department or operation in the
company, e.g. sales, payroll, production. Data marts are sometimes
Latest Answer: A Data Mart is the subset of the data warehouse that caters

the needs of a specific functional domain.examples of functional domains

can be given as Sales, Finance, Maketing, HR etc. ...

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What are the methodologies of Data Warehousing.

Latest Answer: There are four methods in which one can build a

datawarehouse.1. Top-Down (Emphasizes the DW. )2. Bottom-Up

(Emphasizes data marts.)3. Hybrid (Emphasizes DW and data marts;
blends top-down and bottom-up methods.)4. Federated (Emphasizes
the need to ...
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What is a Data Warehousing?

Data Warehouse is a repository of integrated information, available for

queries and analysis. Data and information are extracted from
heterogeneous sources as they are generated....This makes it much
Latest Answer: Data Warehousing is Relational Database which is specially

designed for analysis processing rather then for querying and

transactional processing. ...
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What are the vaious ETL tools in the Market

Latest Answer: By far, the best ETL tool on the market is Hummingbird

Genio.Hummingbird is a division of OpenText, they make, among other

things, connectivity and ETL software. ...
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What is Fact table

Answer posted by Chintan on 2005-05-22 18:46:03: A table in a data

warehouse whose entries describe data in a fact table. Dimension tables
contain the data from which dimensions are created.
Latest Answer: Fact table is the one which contains measures of interest at

most granular level.These values are numeric.Ex:sales amount would be

a measure .Each dimension table has a single-part primary which exactly
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What is ODS

Latest Answer: ODS means Operational Data store. ODS & Staging layer are

the two layers between the source and the target datbases in the data
warehouse..ODS is used to store the recent data. ...
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What are conformed dimensions

Latest Answer: A dimension which can be shared with multiple fact tables

such dimensions are know as conformed dimension. ...

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What is a lookup table

Latest Answer: hi if the data is not available in the source systems then

we have to get the data by some reference tables which are present in

the database.these tables are called lookuptablesfor example while

loading the data from oltp to olap,we have ...
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What is ER Diagram

Answered by Puneet on 2005-05-07 04:21:07: ER - Stands for entitity

relationship diagrams. It is the first step in the design of data model
which will later lead to a physical database design of possible
Latest Answer: Entity Relationship Diagrams are a major data modelling tool

and will help organize the data in your project into entities and define
the relationships There are three basic elements in ER models: Entities
are the "things" about which we seek ...
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What is ETL

Answered by sunitha on 2005-04-28 21:17:53: ETL is

extraction,trasformation and loading,ETL technology is used for
extraction the information from the source database and loading it to the
target database
Latest Answer: Data Acquisition technique is now called ETL(Extraction,

Transformation and Loading)Extraction-The process of extracting the

data from various sources. Sources can be file system, database, XML
file, Cobol File, ERP etcTransformation-Transforming the ...
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What are conformed dimensions

Latest Answer: In Integrated schema Design, a dimension which can be

shared across multiple fact tables is called Conformed Dimension. ...

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What is conformed fact?

Latest Answer: A fact,which can be used across multiple datamarts is called

as conformed fact. ...

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Can a dimension table contains numeric values?

Latest Answer: Absolutely!For example, a perishable product in a grocery

store might have SHELF_LIFE (in days) as part of the product dimension.
This value may, for example, be used to calculate optimum inventory
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What is a Star Schema

Answer posted by Chintan on 2005-05-22 18:34:55: A relational database

schema organized around a central table (fact table) joined to a few
smaller tables (dimension tables) using foreign key references.
Latest Answer: A data warehouse design that enhances the performance of

multidimensional queries on traditional relational databases. One fact

table is surrounded by a series of related tables. Data is joined from one
of the points to the center, providing a so-called ...

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What Snow Flake Schema

Answered by Girinath.S.V.S on 2005-03-17 06:40:48: Snowflake schemas

normalize dimensions to eliminate redundancy. That is, the dimension
data has been grouped into multiple tables instead of one large
Latest Answer: Any schema with extended dimensions(ie., dimesion with

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What is a dimension table

Answer posted by Riaz Ahmad on 2005-06-09 14:45:26: A dimensional

table is a collection of hierarchies and categories along which the user
can drill down and drill up. it contains only the textual attributes.
Latest Answer: A dimensional table contains detail values/data which is

short and wide(ie; less coloums and more rows) Always based on
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What is data mining

Answered by Puneet on 2005-05-07 04:24:28: Data mining is a process of

extracting hidden trends within a datawarehouse. For example an
insurance dataware house can be used to mine data for the most high

Latest Answer: Data Mining: Smpler way we can define as DWH(Data

Warehouse)+ AI(Artificial Intellegence)used in DSS(Decision Supportive

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What type of Indexing mechanism do we need to use for a typical datawarehouse

Answered by on 2005-03-23 01:45:54: bitmap index

Latest Answer: Space requirements for indexes in a warehouse are often

significantly larger than the space needed to store the data, especially
for the fact table and particularly if the indexes are B*trees.Hence, you
may want to keep indexing on the fact table to a ...
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Differences between star and snowflake schemas

Answered by sudhakar on 2005-05-09 18:32:18: star schema uses

denormalized dimension tables,but in case of snowflake schema it uses
normalized dimensions to avoid redundancy...
Latest Answer: star schema uses denormalized dimension tables,but in case

of snowflake schema it uses normalized dimensions to avoid

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What is Difference between E-R Modeling and Dimentional Modeling.

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Latest Answer: E-R Modeling is a model for OLTP, optimized for Operational

database, namely insert, update, delete data and stressing on data

relational integrity.Dimensional Modeling is a model for OLAP, optimized
for retrieving data because it's uncommon to update ...
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Why fact table is in normal form?

Latest Answer: The Fact table is central table in Star schema, Fact table is

kept Normalized because its very bigger and so we should avoid

redundant data in it. Thats why we make different dimensions there by
making normalized star schema model which helps in query ...
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What is junk dimension?what is the difference between junk dimension and

degenerated dimension?

Latest Answer: Junk Dimension also called as garbage dimension. A garbage

dimension is a dimension that consists of low-cardinality columns such as

codes, indicators, status,and flags. The garbage dimension is also
referred to as a junk dimension. Attributes in a garbage ...
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What are slowly changing dimensions

Latest Answer: The definition of slowly changing dimension is in its name

only. The dimension which changes slowly with time. A customer

dimension table represents customer. When creating a customer, normal

assumption is it is independent of time. But what if address ...
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How do you load the time dimension

Latest Answer: create a procedure to load data into Time Dimension. The

procedure needs to run only once to popullate all the data. For eg, the
code below fills up till 2015. You can modify the code to suit the feilds in
ur table.create or replace procedure

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Difference between Snow flake and Star Schema. What are situations where Snow flake
Schema is better

Difference between Snow flake and Star Schema. What are situations
where Snow flake Schema is better than Star Schema to use and when
the opposite is true?
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What is a linked cube?

A cube can be stored on a single analysis server and then defined as a

linked cube on other Analysis servers. End users connected to any of
these analysis servers can then access the cube. This arrangement
Latest Answer: Hi All,Could you please let me know what is Replicate Cube

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What is the datatype of the surrgate key

Latest Answer: It is a system generated sequence number, an artificial key

used in maintaining history.It comes while handling slowly changing

dimensions ...
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For 80GB Datawarehouse How many records are there in Fact Table There are 25
Dimension and 12 Fact

For 80GB Datawarehouse How many records are there in Fact Table There
are 25 Dimension and 12 Fact Tables
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How data in datawarehouse stored after data has been extracted and transformed from
hetrogeneous sources

How data in datawarehouse stored after data has been extracted and
transformed from hetrogeneous sources and where does the data go from
datawarehouse.
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What is the role of surrogate keys in data warehouse and how will u generate them?

Latest Answer: A surrogate key is a substitution for the natural primary key.

We tend to use our own Primary keys (surrogate keys) rather than depend

on the primary key that is available in the source system. When

integrating the data, trying to work with ...
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What are the various Reporting tools in the Market

Answered by Hemakumar on 2005-04-12 05:40:50:

Cognos BusinessObjects MicroStrategies Actuate
Latest Answer: Dear friends you have mentioned so many reporting tools

but missed one open source tool (java based)that is jasper

reportsunfortunatly i am working on that. ...
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What is Normalization, First Normal Form, Second Normal Form , Third Normal
Form

Answer posted by Badri Santhosh on 2005-05-18 09:40:29: Normalization :

The process of decomposing tables to eliminate data redundancy is
called Normalization. 1N.F:- The table should caontain
Latest Answer: Normalization:It is the process of efficiently organizing data

in a database.There are 2-goals of the normalization process: 1.

Eliminate redundant data 2. Ensure data dependencies make sense(only
storing related data in a table)First Normal ...
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What does level of Granularity of a fact table signify

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Latest Answer: Granularity means nothing but it is a level of representation

of measures and metrics.The lowest level is called detailed dataand

highest level is called summary dataIt depends of project we extract fact
table significanceBye ...
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What are non-additive facts

Latest Answer: Non additive facts are the facts that do not participate in

arithmetic caliculations. for example in stock fact table there will be

opening and closing balances along with qty sold and amt etc. but
opening and closing balances were never used in arithmetic ...
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What is VLDB

Answered by Kiran on 2005-05-06 20:12:19: The perception of what

constitutes a VLDB continues to grow. A one terabyte database would
normally be considered to be a VLDB.
Latest Answer: Very Large Database (VLDB)it is sometimes used to describe

databases occupying magnetic storage in the terabyte range and

containing billions of table rows. Typically, these are decision support
systems or transaction processing applications serving large ...
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What is SCD1 , SCD2 , SCD3

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Latest Answer: SCD1, SCD2, SCD3 are also called TYPE1, TYPE2, TYPE3

dimensions Type1: It never maintains history in the target table. It keeps

the most recent updated record in the data base. Type2: It maintains full
history in the target. It maintains history by ...
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Why are OLTP database designs not generally a good idea for a Data Warehouse

Answer posted by Shri Dana on 2005-04-06 19:04:05: OLTP cannot store

historical information about the organization. It is used for storing the
details of daily transactions while a datawarehouse is a huge
Latest Answer: OLTP databases are generally volatile in nature which are

not suitable for datawarehouses which we use to store historic data ...
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What is a CUBE in datawarehousing concept?

Latest Answer: CUBE is used in DWH for representing multidimensional data

logically. Using the cube, it is easy to carry out certain activity e.g. drill
down / drill up, slice and dice, etc. which enables the business users to
understand the trend of the business. ...
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What is the main differnce between schema in RDBMS and schemas in

DataWarehouse....?

Latest Answer: Diff b.w OLTP and OLAP :------------------------OLTP Schema :*

Normalized * More no.of trans* Less time for queries execution* More

no.of users* Have Insert,delete and update trans. OLAP (DWH) Schema :*
De Normalized * Less no.of trans* ...
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What is meant by metadata in context of a Datawarehouse and how it is important?

Latest Answer: meta data is stored in repository only not in dataware house

.. but we r placing our repository in database in that way ur correct ,,but

not directly stored in the dataware house plz check it mam ...
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Wht r the data types present in bo?n wht happens if we implement view in the designer
n report

Latest Answer: hi venkateshdimension , measure, detail are objects

type.data types are character, date and numeric ...

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What is the definition of normalized and denormalized view and what are the
differences between them

What is the definition of normalized and denormalized view and what are
the differences between them
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What is the main difference between Inmon and Kimball philosophies of data
warehousing?

Latest Answer: RalfKimball: he follows bottum-up approach i.e., first create

individual Data Marts from the existing sources and then create Data
Warehouse.BillImmon: he follows top-down approach i.e., first create
Data Warehouse from the existing ...
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Explain degenerated dimension in detail.

Latest Answer: A Degenerate dimension is a Dimension which has only a

single attribute.This dimension is typically represented as a single field in

a fact table.Degenerate Dimensions are the fastest way to group similar
transactions.Degenerate Dimensions are used when ...
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What is the need of surrogate key;why primary key not used as surrogate key

Latest Answer: Datawarehousing depends on the surrogate key not primary

key, for suppose if u r taking the product price it will change over the
time, but product no. will not change but price will change over the
time to maintain the full hystorical data ...
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How do you connect two fact tables ? Is it possible ?

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conformed dimension. ...

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Explain the flow of data starting with OLTP to OLAP including staging ,summary
tables,Facts and dimensions.

Explain the flow of data starting with OLTP to OLAP including staging
,summary tables,Facts and dimensions.
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What are the Different methods of loading Dimension tables

Latest Answer: The answer to this depends on what kind of Dimension are

we loading. If it is not changing , then simply insert. If it is slowly

changing dim of type 1 , update else insert(50% of the time)Type 2, Only
Insert (50% of the time)Type 3 ,Rarely used as we ...
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What are modeling tools available in the Market

Latest Answer: There is one more data modelling tool available in the

market and that is "KALIDO".This is end to end data warehousing

tool. Its a unique and user friendly tool. ...
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What is real time data-warehousing

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Latest Answer: Real time Data warehousing means combination of

hetrogenious databases and query and analysis purpose and

Decisionmaking and reporting purpose. ...
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What are Semi-additive and factless facts and in which scenario will you use such kinds
of fact tables

What are Semi-additive and factless facts and in which scenario will you
use such kinds of fact tables
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What is degenerate dimension table?

Latest Answer: Degenerate Dimensions : If a table contains the values,

which r neither dimesion nor measures is called degenerate

dimensions.Ex : invoice id,empno ...
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What is Data warehosuing Hierarchy?

Latest Answer: hierarchy is an ordered series of related dimension objects

grouped together to perform the multidimensional

analysis.Multidimensional analysis is a technique to modify the data,so
that the data can be viewed from different perspectives and at
different ...
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What is the difference between view and materialized view

Latest Answer: View is a logical reference to a database table. But

Meterial View is actual table and we can refresh data in time intervels. If
you made any change in database table that change will effect into view
but not meterialize view.. ...
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What are the different architecture of datawarehouse

Latest Answer: Architecture 1:Source=>Staging=>DWHArchitecture

2:Source=>Staging=>Datamarts

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What is hybrid slowly changing dimension

Latest Answer: Hybrid SCDs are combination of both SCD 2 and SCD

3.Whatever changes done in source for each and every record there is a
new entry in target side, whether it may be UPDATE or INSERT. There is
new column added to provide the previous record info (generally ...
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What is the difference between star schema and snow flake schema ?and when we use
those schema's?

What is the difference between star schema and snow flake schema ?and
when we use those schema's?
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Can you convert a snowflake schema in to star schema?

Latest Answer: Star ----->Snow Flake also vice versa is possibleIn Star

SchemaWhen we try to access many attributes or few attributes from a

single dimension table the performance of the query falls. So we
denormalize this dimension table into two or sub dimensions. ...
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Explain the situations where snowflake is better than star schema

Latest Answer: A snowflake schema is a way to handle problems that do not

fit within the star schema. It consists of outrigger tables which relate to
dimensions rather than to the fact table.The amount of space taken up
by dimensions is so small compared to the ...
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What are Aggregate tables

Latest Answer: Aggregate table contains the summary of existing

warehouse data which is grouped to certain levels of

dimensions.Retrieving the required data from the actual table, which
have millions of records will take more time and also affects the
server ...
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What is a general purpose scheduling tool

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Latest Answer: A sheduling tool is a tool which is used to shedule the

datawarehouse jobs...All the jobs which does some process are sheduled
using this tool, which eliminates the manual intervension. ...
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Which columns go to the fact table and which columns go the dimension table

Answered by Satish on 2005-04-29 08:20:29: The Aggreation or calculated

value colums will go to Fac Tablw and details information will go to
diamensional table.
Latest Answer: Before broken into coloumns is going to the factAfter broken

going to dimensions ...

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Why should you put your data warehouse on a different system than your OLTP system

Latest Answer: An DW is typically used most often for intensive querying .

Since the primary responsibility of an OLTP system is to faithfully record

on going transactions (inserts/updates/deletes), these operations will be
considerably slowed down by the heavy querying ...
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What is the main FUNCTIONAL difference between ROLAP,MOLAP,HOLAP?

(NOT AS A RELATIONAL,MULTI, HYBRID?)

Latest Answer: The FUNCTIONAL difference between these is how they

information is stored. In all cases, the users see the data as a cube of

dimensions and facts.ROLAP - detailed data is stored in a relational

database in 3NF, star, or snowflake form. Queries ...
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Is it correct/feasible develop a Data Mart using an ODS?

the ODS is technically designed to be used as the feeder for the DW and
other DM's -- yes. It is to be the source of truth.Read the complete
thread at http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?
p=4950:8:16165205144590546310::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,F4950_P8_CR
ITERIA:30801968442845,
Latest Answer: Hi According to Bill Inmon's paradigm an enterprize can have

one datware house and datamarts source their information from the
datawarehouse. In the dataware house, information is stroed in 3rd
Normalization. This Dataware house is build on ODS. You ...
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What are the possible data marts in Retail sales.?

Latest Answer: product informationstore time ...

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What is BUS Schema?

Latest Answer: Bus Schema : Let we consider/explain these in x,y axis

Dimension Table : A,B,C,D,E,F

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What are the steps to build the datawarehouse

Latest Answer: 1.Understand the bussiness requirements.2.Once the

business requirements are clear then Identify the Grains(Levels).3.Grains

are defined ,design the Dimensional tables with the Lower level
Grains.4.Once the Dimensions are designed,design the Fact table ...
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What is rapidly changing dimension?

Latest Answer: A rapidly changing dimension is a result of poor decisions

during the requirements analysis and data modeling stages of the Data
Warehousing project. If the data in the dimension table is changing a lot,
it is a hint that the design should be revisited. ...
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What is data cleaning? how is it done?

Latest Answer: it is a process of identifing and changing the inconsistencies

and inaccuracies ...

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Do u need seperate space for Datawarehouse & Data mart

Latest Answer: I think the comments made earlier are not specific.We dont

required any seperate space for data mart and data where house unless
until those marts are too big or client required.We can maintain both in a
same schema. ...

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What is source qualifier?

Latest Answer: Source qualifier is a transformation which extracts data

from the source. Source qualifier acts as SQL query when the source is a
relational database and it acts as a data interpreter if the source is a
flatfile. ...
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Explain ODS and ODS types.

Latest Answer: It is designed to support Operational Monitoring. It is subject

oriented,integrated database which holds the current,detailed data.data

here is volatile ...
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What is a level of Granularity of a fact table

Latest Answer: It also means that we can have (for example) data

agregated for a year for a given product as well as the data can be
drilled down to Monthly, weekl and daily basis...teh lowest level is known
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How are the Dimension tables designed

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Latest Answer: Find where data for this dimension are located. Figure out

how to extract this data. Determine how to maintain changes to this

dimension (see more on this in the next section). Change fact table and
DW population routines. ...
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1.what is incremental loading?2.what is batch processing?3.what is cross reference

table?4.what is aggregate

1.what is incremental loading?2.what is batch processing?3.what is cross

reference table?4.what is aggregate fact table
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Give examples of degenerated dimensions

Latest Answer: Degenerated Dimension is a dimension key without

corresponding dimension. Example:

table, we have:

In the PointOfSale Transaction Fact

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What is the difference between Datawarehouse and Datawarehousing

Latest Answer: dataware house is a container to store the historical

datawhere as dataware hosuning is a process or technique to analyze tha

data in the ware house ...
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Summarize the differene between OLTP,ODS AND DATA WAREHOUSE ?

Latest Answer: ODS: this is operational data stores, which means the real

time transactional databases. In data warehouse, we extract the data

from ODS, transform in the stagging area and load into the target data
warehouse.I think, earlier comments on the ODS is little ...
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What is the purpose of "Factless Fact Table"? How it is involved in Many to many
relationship?

What is the purpose of "Factless Fact Table"? How it is involved in Many to

many relationship?
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What is the difference between Data modelling and Dimensional modelling?

Latest Answer: Dimensional Modelling is the Analysis of the Transactional

Data (Facts) based on Master Data (Dimensions).Data Modeling is the

process of creating a data model by applying a data model theory to
create a data model instance.Regards,Sridhar Tirukovela ...
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Explain the advanatages of RAID 1, 1/0, and 5. What type of RAID setup would you put
your TX logs

Latest Answer: Raid 0 - Make several physical hard drives look like one hard

drive. No redundancy but very fast. May use for temporary spaces where

loss of the files will not result in loss of committed data. Raid 1Mirroring. Each hard drive in the ...
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What is the life cycle of data warehouse projects

Latest Answer: STRAGEGY & PROJECT PLANNINGDefinition of scope, goals,

objectives & purpose, and expectationsEstablishment of implementation

strategyPreliminary identification of project resourcesAssembling of
project teamEstimation of project scheduleREQUIREMENTS ...
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What is slicing and dicing? Explain with real time usage and business reasons of it's use

Latest Answer: Hi, Slicing and Dicing is a feature that helps us in seeing the

more detailed information about a particular thing. For eg: You have a
report which shows the quarterly based performance of a particular
product. But you want to see it ...
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What is meant by Aggregate Factable?

Factable having aggregated calculations like sum, avg, sum(sal)

+sum(comm),these are Aggregated FactableCheersPadhu
Latest Answer: An aggregate fact table stores information that has been

aggregated, or summarized from a detail fact table. Aggregate fact

table ares useful in improving query performance. Often an aggregate
fact table can be maintained through the use of ...

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What is difference between BO, Microstrategy and Cognos

Latest Answer: BO is a ROLAP Tool,Cognos is a MLAP Tool and MicroStrategy

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What is data validation strategies for data mart validation after loading process

Latest Answer: Data validation is to make sure that the loaded data is

accurate and meets the business requriments.Strategies are different

methods followed to meet the validation requriments ...
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Which automation tool is used in data warehouse testing?

Latest Answer: No Tool testing in done in DWH, only manual testing is done.

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What are the advantages data mining over traditional approaches?

Latest Answer: Data Mining is used for the estimation of future. For

example, if we take a company/business organization, by using the

concept of Data Mining, we can predict the future of business interms of
Revenue (or) Employees (or) Cutomers (or) Orders ...

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What is the differences between the static and dynamic caches?

Latest Answer: static cache stores overloaded values in the memory and it

wont change throught the running of the session where as dynamic cache
stores the values in the memory and changes dynamically duirng the
running of the session used in scd types -- where target ...
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What is cube and why we are crating a cube what is diff between etl and olap cubes any
budy ans

What is cube and why we are crating a cube what is diff between etl and
olap cubes any budy ans plz?
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What are the various attributes in time dimension, If this dimension has to consider
only date of birth

What are the various attributes in time dimension, If this dimension has
to consider only date of birth of a citizen of a country?
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What are late arriving Facts and late arriving dim ? How does it impacts DW?

Latest Answer: Late arriving Fact table: This is rarely happens

in practice. For example there was a credit card of HDFC transaction

happened on 25th Mar 2005, but this record we received on 14th Aug
2007. During this period there is a possibility of change ...
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What are the various techniques in ER modelling?

Latest Answer: ER modelling is the first step for any Database project like

Oracle, DB2.1. Conceptual Modelling2. Logical Modelling3. Physical

Modelling ...
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Explain Bill Inmon's versus Ralph Kimball's Approach to Data Warehousing.

Bill Inmon vs Ralph Kimball In the data warehousing field, we often hear
about discussions on where a person / organization's philosophy falls into
Bill Inmon's camp or into Ralph Kimball's
Latest Answer: Bill inmon : Data warehouse Data martRalph Kimbol : Data

mart Data warehouseCheers,Sithu, sithusithu@Hotmail.com ...

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I want to know how to protect my data over networ.which software will be use

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Information Packages(IP) are advanced by some author as a way of building

dimensional models - e.g.

Information Packages(IP) are advanced by some author as a way of

building dimensional models - e.g. star schemas. Explain what IPs are and
Give an example of it\'s use in building a dimensional model.
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What is Replicate,Transparent and Linked cubes?

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What is meany by survey and extraction tables in DW?

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What is the business rule for writing the requirement?

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How do you load the data conditionally by run steps ?

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