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A data warehouse is a subject oriented, integrated collection of non-volatile data used for management decision making. A data mart contains a subset of data warehouse focused on a line of business like sales. ER diagrams model entities and relationships. A star schema organizes data into fact and dimension tables, with dimensions describing entities like time and location. Dimensional modeling comprises dimensions storing records about an entity and facts/measures in central fact tables. Snowflake schemas normalize dimensions into outrigger tables. Aggregate tables pre-compute summaries. ETL tools extract, transform and load external data into the data warehouse for analysis. Data mining analyzes patterns in large data volumes for business insights. Slowly changing dimensions track historical changes to dimensions over time through

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Question & Answer Data Waerhousing

A data warehouse is a subject oriented, integrated collection of non-volatile data used for management decision making. A data mart contains a subset of data warehouse focused on a line of business like sales. ER diagrams model entities and relationships. A star schema organizes data into fact and dimension tables, with dimensions describing entities like time and location. Dimensional modeling comprises dimensions storing records about an entity and facts/measures in central fact tables. Snowflake schemas normalize dimensions into outrigger tables. Aggregate tables pre-compute summaries. ETL tools extract, transform and load external data into the data warehouse for analysis. Data mining analyzes patterns in large data volumes for business insights. Slowly changing dimensions track historical changes to dimensions over time through

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1.What is data waerhousing?

A data warehouse is a subject oriented, integrated, time variant, non


volatile collection of data in support of management's decision making
process.
2.What are data mart?
Data Mart: A data mart is a subset of data warehouse that is designed for
a particular line of business, such as sales, marketing, or finance. In a
dependent data mart, data can be derived from an enterprise-wide data
warehouse.
3.What is ER diagram?
ER diagram is entity relation diagram.
4.What is star schema?
Star Schema is a relational database schema for representing
multimensional data. It is the simplest form of data warehouse schema
that contains one or more dimensions and fact tables.
5.What is Dimensional modeling?
Dimensional Data Modeling comprises of one or more dimension tables
and fact tables. Good examples of dimensions are location, product, time,
promotion, organization etc. Dimension tables store records related to
that particular dimension and no facts(measures) are stored in these
tables.
What snow flake schema?
A snowflake schema is a term that describes a star schema structure
normalized through the use of outrigger tables. i.e dimension table
hierachies are broken into simpler tables.

What are different methods of loading dimension tables?

What are aggregate tables?

What is difference between OLTP and OLAP?

What is ETL?
ETL Tools are meant to extract, transform and load the data into Data
Warehouse for decision making. Before the evolution of ETL Tools,
What are various ETL tools in market?
What are various reporting tool in market?
What is fact table?
The centralized table in a star schema is called as FACT table.
What is dimension table?
Dimension table is one that describe the business entities of an enterprise,
represented as hierarchical, categorical information such as time,
departments, locations, and products. Dimension tables are sometimes
called lookup or reference tables.
What is lookup table?
What is general purpose of scheduling tool? Name some of them?
What is real-time data warehousing?
What is data mining?
Data Mining is a set of processes related to analyzing and discovering
useful, actionable knowledge buried deep beneath large volumes of data
stores or data sets. This knowledge discovery involves finding patterns or
behaviors within the data that lead to some profitable business action.
Data Mining requires generally large volumes of data including history
data as well as current data to explore the knowledge. Once the required
amount of data has been accumulated from various sources, it is cleaned,
validated and prepared for storing it in the data warehouse or data mart.
BI reporting Tools capture the required facts from these data to be used
by the knowledge discovery process. Data Mining can be accomplished by
utilizing one or more of the traditional knowledge discovery techniques like
Market Basket Analysis, Clustering, Memory Based Reasoning, Link
Analysis, Neural Networks and so on
What is normalization? what is first normal , 2nd normal, 3rd normal form?
What is ODS?
What type of Indexing mechanism do we need to use for typical data
warehousing?
What is level of granularity of fact table? What does this signify?
What are slowly changing dimension ?
Dimensions that change over time are called Slowly Changing
Dimensions. For instance, a product price changes over time; People
change their names for some reason; Country and State names may
change over time. These are a few examples of Slowly Changing
Dimensions since some changes are happening to them over a period of
time.

What are SCD1, SCD2 & SCD3?


What is VLDB?

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