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COMPANY: KANBAY, Pune (DataStage – Personal Interview)
1. All about company details, project details, and client details, sample data of your source?
2. DataStage Architecture?
3. System variable, what are system variables used your project?
4. What are the different datastage functions used in your project?
5. Difference between star schema and snow flake schema?
6. What is confirmed, degenerated and junk dimension?
7. What are confirmed facts?
8. Different type of facts and their examples?
9. What are approaches in developing data warehouse?
10. Different types of hashed files?
11. What are routines and transforms? How you used in your project?
12. Difference between Data Mart and Data Warehouse?
13. What is surrogate key? How do you generate it?
14. What are environment variables and global variables?
15. How do you improve the performance of the job?
16. What is SCD? How do you developed SCD type1 and SCD type2?
17. Why do you go for oracle sequence to generate surrogate key rather than datastage
routines?
18. How do you generate surrogate key in datastage?
19. What is job sequence?
20. What are plug-ins?
21. How much data you can get every day?
22. What is the biggest table and size in your schema or in your project?
23. What is the size of data warehouse (by loading data)?
24. How do you improve the performance of the hashed file?
25. What is IPC Stage?
26. What are the different types of stages and used in your project?
27. What are the operations you can do in IPC Stage and transformer stage?
28. What is merge stage? How do you merge two flat files?
29. I have two table, in one table contains 100 records and other table contains 1000 records
which table is the master table? Why?
30. I have one job from one flat file. I have to load data to database, 10 lakhs records are
there, after loading 9 lakhs job is aborted? How do you load remaining records?
31. Which data your project contains?
32. What is the source in your project?
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COMPANY: IBM, Bangalore (DataStage – Telephonic Interview)
1. Tell me about your educational and professional background?
2. What is team size? What is your role in that?
3. What is fact less fact table? As it don’t have facts then what’s the purpose of using it?
Had you used in your project?
4. How many jobs you have done in your project?
5. You handled different complex logic jobs in your project or not?
6. Out of all jobs you have done, what is most complex job u feel? Explain it?
7. You do yourself the complex logic or someone give you the specifications and you
convert them to datastage?
8. What are the sources you used in your project?
9. What are the stages you used in your project?
10. What is difference between ODBC and ORACLE OCI stage?
11. As you told, if your sources are flat files and ORACLE OCI then why you need ODBC in
your project rather than ORACLE OCI stage?
12. What difference between sequential file and hashed file?
13. Can you use sequential file as source to hashed file? Have you done it? What error it will
give?
14. Why hashed file improve the performance?
15. How do you sort your data in jobs?
16. Had you use sort stage in your job? (sort stage is parallel stage, be sure that you are using
server jobs only, then he will ask Q.12)
17. Can aggregator and transformer stage used for sorting data? How
18. If I have two sources to aggregator stage and oracle as target, I can sort data in aggregator
but if I don’t want to use aggregator to sort data then how you will do it?
19. Why we use surrogate key in data warehouse? How it will improve the performance?
Where it will store? How do you handle your surrogate key in your project? Where we
use mostly surrogate key?
20. How many input links you can give to transformer?
21. Can you give more than one source to transformer? (If you say “No” he will ask what
error it will give when you try to do this?)
22. Definition of Slowly Changing Dimensions? Types?
23. If a company maintaining type1 SCD, now the company decided to change there plan to
maintain type2 SCD, e.g. customer table, so what are the changes to do in customer
table? (Whether you have to change the structure of the table, if it is under type3 right?
Or no changes? How do you implement this?)
24. How many dimensions in your project? What are they?
25. What are the facts in your fact table?
26. Are all these facts are specific (related) to all dimensions?
27. How do you get system date in oracle?
28. What is a dual table in oracle?
29. What is the use of UNION in oracle? If I write query select * from EMP UNION select *
from dept, is it executed well?
30. I have a query select * from EMP table group by dept; is this query executed? If no what
is the error?