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1. ODS means Operational Data Store.
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2. A collection of operation or bases data that is
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cleansed, consolidated, transformed, and loaded into an Database developer
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data that is summarized for a data warehouse. The
ODS may also be used to audit the data warehouse to SQL Server DBA FAQs
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assure summarized and derived data is calculated
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properly. The ODS may further become the enterprise A&Q
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shared operational database, allowing operational
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systems that are being reengineered to use the ODS as SQL Server database
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there operation databases.
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What's A Data warehouse

What is ODS?

What is a dimension table?

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What is a lookup table?

Why should you put your data warehouse on a

different system than your OLTP system?

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What are Aggregate tables?

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important ?

Why is Data Modeling Important?

What is data mining?

What is ETL?

What does level of Granularity of a fact table

signify?

What is the Difference between OLTP and

OLAP?

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Dimension tables?

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What is conformed fact?

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How are the Dimension tables designed?

What are non-additive facts?

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use for a typical datawarehouse?

What Snow Flake Schema?

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What are slowly changing dimensions?

What are Semi-additive and factless facts and in

which scenario will you use such kinds of fact
tables?

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Differences between star and snowflake

schemas?

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What is a Star Schema?

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Which columns go to the fact table and which

columns go the dimension table?

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How do you load the time dimension?

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Dimentional Modeling.?

Why fact table is in normal form?

What are the advantages data mining over

traditional approaches?

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What are the vaious ETL tools in the Market?

What is a CUBE in datawarehousing concept?

What is data validation strategies for data mart

validation after loading process ?

what is the datatype of the surrgate key ?

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What is degenerate dimension table?

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What are the methodologies of Data

Warehousing.?

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What is the main difference between Inmon and

Kimball philosophies of data warehousing?

What is Data warehosuing Hierarchy?

What is the main differnce between schema in

RDBMS and schemas in DataWarehouse....?

What is hybrid slowly changing dimension?

What are the different architecture of

datawarehouse?

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4.what is aggregate fact table?

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What are the possible data marts in Retail

sales.?

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denormalized view and what are the differences
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What is meant by metadata in context of a

Datawarehouse and how it is important?

Differences between star and snowflake

schemas?

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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 VLDB?

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What is the difference between view and

materialized view?

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What is surrogate key ? where we use it expalin

with examples

What is ER Diagram?

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... any examples of both?

What is active data warehousing?

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struts? Plz give me the details?

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Datawarehousing and BusinessIntelligence?

What is the difference between OLAP and

datawarehosue?

What is fact less fact table? where you have

used it in your project?

Why Denormalization is promoted in Universe

Designing?

What is the difference between ODS and OLTP?

What is the difference between datawarehouse

and BI?

Is OLAP databases are called decision support

system ??? true/false?

explain in detail about type 1, type 2(SCD), type

3?

What is snapshot?

What is the difference between datawarehouse

and BI?

What are non-additive facts in detail?

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Definition
Computer system where time-sensitive, transaction-relateddata is processed immediately and is always kept current. Used
mainly in online banking, inventory control,manufacturing scheduling, and ticket reservations, OLTP must possess ACID
qualities to maintain data integrity and to ensure that transactions are correctly executed.

Operational Data Store(ODS)

An operational data store (or "ODS") is a database designed to integrate data from multiple sources for additional operations on the data. The data is then
passed back to operational systems for further operations and to the data warehouse for reporting.

Because the data originates from multiple sources, the integration often involves cleaning, resolving redundancy and checking against business rules for
integrity. An ODS is usually designed to contain low-level or atomic (indivisible) data (such as transactions and prices) with limited history that is captured
"real time" or "near real time" as opposed to the much greater volumes of data stored in the Data warehouse generally on a less-frequent basis.

General Use: The general purpose of an "ODS" is to integrate data from disparate source systems in a single structure, using data
integration technologies like data virtualization or data federation. This will allow operational access to the data for operational reporting, master data or
reference data management. An "ODS" is not a replacement or substitute for an enterprise data warehouse but in turn could become a source.

OLAP
Stands for "Online Analytical Processing." OLAP allows users to analyze database information from multiple database
systems at one time. While relational databases are considered to be two-dimensional, OLAP data is multidimensional,
meaning the information can be compared in many different ways. For example, a company might compare their
computer sales in June with sales in July, then compare those results with the sales from another location, which might
be stored in a different database.
Ex: EDW & CDW

DIMENSION
A dimension is a structural attribute of a cube that is a list of members, all of which are of a similar type in the user's perception of the data.
For example, all months, quarters, years, etc., make up a time dimension; likewise all cities, regions, countries, etc., make up a geography
dimension. A dimension acts as an index for identifying values within a multi-dimensional array. If one member of the dimension is
selected, then the remaining dimensions in which a range of members (or all members) are selected defines a sub-cube. If all but two
dimensions have a single member selected, the remaining two dimensions define a spreadsheet (or a "slice" or a "page"). If all dimensions
have a single member selected, then a single cell is defined. Dimensions offer a very concise, intuitive way of organizing and selecting data
for retrieval, exploration and analysis.