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How to list Top 10 salary, without using Rank Transmission?
what is the economic comparison of all the Informatica versions?
what is Data Ware Housing?
How to create slowly changing dimension in informatica?
How do you handle two sessions in Informatica
How to implement de-normalization concept in Informatica Mappings?
Do v use any tool for Handling Performance tuning in real time?
What's the difference between source and target object definitions in Informatica?
What is the advantages of converting stored procedures into Informatica mappings?
What is the purpose of using UNIX commands in informatica. Which UNIX commands are generally used with informatica?
Explain about scheduling real time in informatica
What is the difference between SQL Overriding in Source qualifier and Lookup transformation?
How do you define fact less Fact Table in Informatica?
Does Informatica provide a SAS exit in any of its products?
What is the role/use of unix in informatica
What is informatica
What is informatica power
how much hike in the 6th pay commission for my basic pay of rs.5500?
Difference between data mining and data warehousing
What is MODEL is Data mining world?
How can we load the normalized data ( Vertical data) to (Horizontal data)with out using decode in the expression
difference between source based commit? and target based commit? which is better with respect to performance?
What is Target Update Override? What is the Use ?
What is a Shortcut and What is the difference between a Shortcut and a Reusable Transformation?
why sequence generator should not directly connected to joiner transformation ?
How to create a mapping ? id date 101 2/4/2008 101 4/4/2008 102 6/4/2008 102 4/4/2008 103 4/4/2008 104 8/4/2008 O/P
- shuould have only one id with the min(date) How to create a mapping for this
How Schedule the Informatica job in "Unix Corn Scheduling tool" ?
How upload the Mainframe source For Informatics ?
what is the difference between persistence and dynamic caches? On which conditions we are using these caches?
Change Data Capture in Informatics,using Incremental Aggregation.How we identify the these data in Target table.
What are set operators in Oracle
what is the Source File limitation in Informatica?how many flat file we can use as a source in a mapping if.. 1) The Structure
of flat files are same & 2) If the Structure of flat files are different
How generate Sequence Numbers to Target Table (with out using Sequence Gen Trans,Rank Trans).
How scd will work ?
When we load flat files into target tables how do we identify duplicates? and where do load the duplicate records for further
reference?
How do we do change data capture? Is this Slowly changing Dimension technique?
What is the difference between Connected and Unconnected Look up Transformation.Give one or two examples
what are the difference between active and passive transformation with some examples.
What is a flat file and how to use flat file in informatica
What is a surrogate key?Why we use it in a mapping?
How Union Transformation is an Active Trans
What are partitions in informatics and which one is used for better performance?
when we develop a project what are the performance issue will raise??
if a table have INDEX and CONSTRAINT why it raise the performance issue bcoz when we drop the index and disable the
How to extract original records at one target & Duplicate records at one target?
How to display null values on a target & non-null values on a target?
How to update records in Target, without using Update Strategy?
Is it possible to have "5 source & 5 Target" in single mapping?
Without using Look up & Sequence Generator, How to generate Sequence?
In joiner, how to load Master table in Target?
How to compare Source and Target table, without using dynamic look up?
How to join 2 tables, without using any condition?
Without source how to insert record to target?
How to find from a source which has 10,000 records, find the average between 500th to 600th record?
how will you remove the duplicate records from flat file without using sorter?
how will you get 21 to 30 record from 50 records?
How will you combine 3 different sources with a single source?
How will you display 10-15 letters from a name? (for ex: name="sivasubram'aniam'ramakrishnan". o/p wanted="aniam")
How will you display "Mr" for male & "Mrs" for female in target table?
how to join the two flat files using the joiner t/r if there is no matching port?
How many cubes create from a single model?
What is the difference between Oracle performance and Informatics Performance? Which performance is better?
how to declare array in plsql?
what is plsql table?
what is the difference between lookup override and joiner?
How to send duplicates to one target and unique rows to one target?target is empty
How to delete duplicate records in a flat file source?
What is a poling?
what is the tracing level? and difference between trace in normal and verbose and non verbose?
how much memory (size) occupied by a session at run time
how DTM buffer size and buffer block size are related
why cant we put a sequence generator or up strategy transformation before joiner transformation?
In Real Time what are the scenarios u faced, what r the tough situations u have overcome, and explain about sessions
In Real Time what are the scenarios u faced, what r the tough situations u have overcome, and explain about sessions.
What is difference between Informatica 6.2 Work flow and Informatica Work flow 7.1
What is a diff between joiner and look up transformation
Without using any transformations how u can load the data into target?
why we need to use unconnected transformation?
where we can static cache,dynamic cache
What is incremental aggregation and how it is done?
How could we generate the sequence of key values without using sequence generator transformation in the target ??
In a scenario I want to change the dimensions of a table and normalize the denomralized table which transformation can I
use?
Why is meant by direct and indirect loading options in sessions?
what is the logic will you implement to load data into a fact table from n dimension tables?
How will u pass the data with out debugger?
How will u find weather dimension table is big in size of a fact table?
explain the scenario for bulk loading and the normal loading option in Informatica Work flow manager ???
What is Fact less fact table ?
what is the (UTC) unit test cases with the examples in informatica
Whats the difference between $,$$,$$$
From where we can start or use pmcmd?
In real time scenario where can we use mapping parameters and variables?
By using Filter Transformation,How to pass rows that does not satisfy the condition(discarded rows) to another target?
THREE DATE FORMATS R THERE . HOW TO CHANGE THESE THREE INTO ONE FORMAT WITHOUT USING
EXPRESSION TRANSFORMATION ?
A TABLE CONTAINS SOME NULL VALUES.HOW TO GET (NOT APPLICABLE(NA)) IN PLACE OF THAT NULL VALUE
IN TARGET?
ONE FLAT FILE IS THERE WHICH IS COMMA DELIMETED,HOW TO CHANGE THAT COMMA DELIMITER TO ANY
OTHER AT THE TIME OF RUNNING?
two tables from two different databases r there,both having same structure but different data,how to compare these two
tables ?
TWO FLAT FILES ARE THERE , EACH HAVING NO MATCHING COLUMNS . HOW CAN U JOIN THESE TWO USING
JOINER TRANSFORMATION ?
IN SCD TYPE 1 WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO THAT LOOKUP TRANSFORMATION ?
explain how to use Normalizer transformation for the following scenario Source table | Target Table | Std_name ENG MAT
ART | Subject Ramesh Himesh Mahesh Ramesh 68 82 78 | ENG 68 73 81 Himesh 73 87 89 | MAT 82 87 79 Mahesh 81 79
64 | ART 78 89 64 | explain what should be the normalizer column(s) The GCID column 2)Also explain the Ni-or-1 rule.
what is Fact table Partitioning?
How to use the Oracle Analytic functions in Informatica
WHAT IS FACT TABLES?
WHAT IS UPDATE OVERRIDE,DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SQL OVERRIDE AND UPDATE OVERRIDE ?
HOW DO YOU CONNECT TO REMOTE SERVER?
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT PORT IN DYNAMIC CACHE WHICH IS USED FOR INSERT,UPDATE OPERATION ?
HOW DO YOU PERFORM INCREMENTAL LOAD?
what are the reusable tasks in informatica ?
if a session is failed after a transformation,from where that session will run again , i.e . from beginning or from that
transformation
what is the function of 'F10' informatica?
HOW TO GET THE LATEST DATA IN SCD ?
two types of data are there ,one is mainframe and the other is ASCII format . in informatica how can you get both the data in
a single format in ASCII .
in unconnected look up , what are the other transformations , that can be used in place of that expression transformation ?
what are the transformations that are used in data cleansing ? and how data cleansing takes place ?
how many Fact Tables and Dimensions Table you have used in the Project? Which one is loaded first Fact Table or
Dimensions Table into the warehouse? What is the size of the Fact Table and Dimension Table? what is the size of the
table and warehouse
Is Flat File Contains the Dynamic Cache
what r the transformations that r not involved in mapplet?
What are differences between Informatica 7.1 and 6.1
Can you use one mapping to populate two tables in different schemas
How do you take care of security using a repository manager
if the session fails after 100 records again we have to starts the session or we go for recovery session
how the server recognizes , if the session fails after loading the 100 records in to the target
what is the difference between onsite & client site?
what is unit testing & how it is done?
what is metadata?
how do u tune queries?
what is scd?
difference between connected and unconnected lookups?
what happens when a batch fails?
what is parallel querying and what r hints
what r the values that r passed between informatics server and stored procedure?
What is version controlling in informatica?
What is scd methodology?
surrogate keys usage in Oracle and Informatica?
What is star and snowflake schema?
What is the Difference between Power Play transformer and power play reports?
What is the capacity of power cube?
What is fact less fact schema?
What is meta data and system catalog?
What is operational data source (ODS)?
What are the Advantages of denormalized data?
After dragging the ports of three sources(sql server,oracle,informix) to a single source qualifier, can you map these three
ports directly to target?
What are the circumstances that informatica server results an unrecoverable session?
How can you recover the session in sequential batches?
How to recover the standalone session?
What is difference between stored procedure transformation and external procedure transformation?
What are the scheduling options to run a session?
what is incremental aggregation?
What are the new features in Informatica 5.0?
How can u work with remote database in informatica?did you work directly by using remote connections?
What is power center repository?
What is Performance tuning in Informatica?
what are the transformations that restricts the partitioning of sessions?
What is difference between partitioning of relational target and partitioning of file targets?
How can you access the remote source into your session?
What is parameter file?
What are the session parameters?
How can u stop a batch?
What are two types of processes that informatica runs the session?
How can you recognize whether or not the newly added rows in the source r gets insert in the target?
What are the different types of Type2 dimension mapping?
What are the mappings that we use for slowly changing dimension table?
What are the types of mapping in Getting Started Wizard?
What are the types of mapping wizards that r to be provided in Informatica?
What are the options in the target session of update strategy transformation?
What is Datadriven?
What is the default source option for update strategy transformation?
Describe two levels in which update strategy transformation sets?
what is update strategy transformation ?
What are the basic needs to join two sources in a source qualifier?
What is the default join that source qualifier provides?
What is the target load order?
What are the tasks that source qualifier performs?
What is source qualifier transformation?
Why we use stored procedure transformation?
What are the types of groups in Router transformation?
What is the Router transformation?
What is the Rank index in Rank transformation?
What are the rank caches?
How the informatica server sorts the string values in Rank transformation?
Which transformation should we use to normalize the COBOL and relational sources?
What are the Differences between static cache and dynamic cache?
While importing the relational source definition from database,what are the meta data of source U import?
What are parallel queries and query hints?
Explain reference cursor?
What is difference between Mapplet and reusable transformation?
How many repositories can we create in Informatica?
What is the Hierarchy of DWH?
Explain grouped cross tab?
What is the Difference between DSS & OLTP?
What is source qualifier?
What are mapping parameters and variables in informatica?
what are precession,post session success and post session failure commands ?
How to identify bottlenecks in sources,targets,mappings,work flow,system and how to increase the performance?
When do we use dynamic cache and static cache in connected and unconnected look up transformations?
What are the different threads in DTM process?
How to enter same record twice in the target table,explain?
What is fact table granularity?
What are reusable transformations in how many ways we can create them?
What is confirmed dimension and fact?
What are the two modes of data movement in informatica sever?
What is the difference between OLTP and ODS?
AT the max how many transformations and mapplets can we use in a mapping ?
How can we eliminate duplicate rows from flatfile,explain?
If we have look up table in work flow how do you troubleshoot to increase performance?
can we generate reports in informatica ? How?
How can we join the tables if they don't have primary and foreign key relationship and no matching port?
Name 4 output files that informatica server creates during session running?
What is the functionality of update strategy?
What are the different tasks that can be created in workflow manager?
What are the new features of informatica 7.1?
Explain the flow of data in Informatica?
Explain one complicated mapping?
what are the real time problems generally come up while doing or running mapping or any transformation?
What is exact use of 'Online' and 'Offline' server connect Options while defining Work flow in Work flow ?
what is the difference between Informatica 7.1 and Ab Initio?
What is Micro Strategy? Why is it used for?
Two relational tables are connected to SQL Trans,what are the possible errors it will be thrown?
what are cost based and rule based approaches and what is the difference?
what is mystery dimension?
Explain about the concept of mapping parameters and variables ?
Comment on significance of oracle 9i in informatica when compared to oracle 8 or 8i?
Can you generate reports in Informatcia?
If you done any modifications for a table in back end does it reflect in informatca warehouse or mapping?
How to recover sessions in concurrent batches?
Explain about perform recovery?
What are Dimensions and various types of Dimensions?
What is Code Page Compatibility?
What are Target Options on the Servers?
What is tracing level and what are the types of tracing level?
Describe how your experience, qualifications and competencies match the position for which you are applying
What is more important to you: the money or the work?
why did you apply for this job
What is your future Plans?
Why You Are Looking For A New Job
What job would you like to have in five years time?
what will you do if you dont get this job
What motivates you to do a good job?
Sometimes a person younger to you might be in a better position.Are you comfortable taking directions from him?
Describe yourself as a third person?
what is the best way to start with the interview
what are the challenges you faced in previous job?
Tell me a situation you solve with creativity
tell about your favorite game
What have you learned from your previous jobs?
Describe your work ethic?
Why have you chosen the role you are applying for?
who is your inspiration and why
Briefly describe your duties and accomplishments
What is your greatest achievement?
Do you consider yourself successful?
Give me an example of any major problem you faced and how you solved it
What is your most significant experience?
how will u design a pipe
What do you consider as the biggest challenge you have encounter in the work place
Please explain to us one conflict situation that you have experienced in your work life and how did you solve it
why u want to come to lower pay scale
suppose you are asked a question concerning salary expectation, how do you tackle that question?
Describe yourself
what is your edge from the other applicants?
why would u like to choose this profession?
What attracted you to this job?
In your last job,what would be the one thing that your peers most disliked about you?
What qualities do you think make someone successful in business?
Give us details of your present Employment Status.
How soon can you travel down to any location posted to?
how can you hire me when i have no experience?but i have ability to work for your company
in your opinion,how many these weaknesses be addressed?
why should we give you this job?
why you would like to be considered for this role
how do you see yourself after two years from now
why you have left this job?
what are your current weaknesses?
why do you think you are fit for this job,you don't have experience,i don't think you are fit for a job
What do you expect for your salary?Is this negotiable?
How would your friends describe you?
what is your favorite personality
Why are choosing this company instead of other company?
when the interviewer asks, what is the Architecture of your project what we have to answer...
plz provide the answer with the example
Tell me about your current job and responsibility
Why did you left the previous organization
what is the best dress code for interview
what is faithfulness in your point of view
Give me your Self introduction
why do you fit for the job
what you want to become in your life?
can you briefly describe your current position, its duties , and responsibilities?
what is your attitude towards adversity and temptation?
what sort of things motivates you?
Mention briefly organisation structure of the company indicating your position in the hierarchy and the levels above and
below you
what examples can you give that emphasize your interest in this kind of work
What shall i do if i do not like some people at my office place . how shall i handle this kind of situation ?
how long would you like to stay with this company?
how do you rate yourself as a professional?
tips for successful interviews
how did you spend your last weekend
What is the difference between doing a good job and doing a great job?
what is the best possible answer of "why do you want to change"
How shall i react if i do not like some people in our office
why do like to work with us
what is your daily routine
how can i explain my project
How long would you expect to work for us if hired?
what motivates you ,money or work?
Could you please introduce yourself?
What attributes can you bring to this position?
what initiative you did in last company as you worked for 3 years?
Hi, Recently i have resigned a job. what i have to tell for the new employer that if he asks why you have resigned your
previous job.i have worked there for 10 months.
WHY DO YOU WANT TO LEAVE YOUR PRESENT JOB?
what value you will add to our company if you are selected
why looking for job change within 6 months
what makes you different from other candidates?
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HARD WORK AND SMART WORK?