Data warehousing

1)what is DATA? And what is INFORMATION?

2)What are the SOURCES of data in Real life?

3)what is a database?how we store data in normal database?Normalisation?

4)How important is to study the data for business users?

5)what is Business intelligence?

6)How business people use data to study their strenths and weaknesses??

7)what is OLTP & OLAP?

7)What is DATAWAREHOUSE?

8)Characteristics of datawarehouse?

9)What is DATAMART?

10)Difference between Datawarehouse & Datamart?

11)Architecture of datawarehouse?

12)Most Important features of Datawarehouse?

13)what is schema?Types of schemas available ?

14)What is star schema?

15)Snowflake schema?

16)galaxy schema?

17)Diff b\w Star schema & Snowflake schema?

18)what is a FACT?what is a DIMENSION?

19)what is a fact table?

20)Types of FACTS?

21)What is a Factless fact table?

22)Dimensional Model?Types of Dimensions?

23)what is a slowly changing Dimension?

24)what is a confirmed dimension?

25)what is a Junk Dimension?

26)what is a de-generated dimension?

27)Dimensional Model & Types of Tables in Dimensional model?

28)What is Datamodelling?Levels of datamodelling?

29)Types of SCDS(SLOWLY CHANGING DIMENSIONS)?

30)what is SCD TYPE?When to use TYPE1?.

31)what is SCD TYPE2?when to use it?

32)what is SCD TYPE3?When to use it?

33)what is “STAGING” and why we need it in Datawarehouse?

34)what is ODS(OPERATIONAL DATASTORE)??

35) what is a surrogate key?

36)How we push data into Datawarehouse?Tools Available in market?