InterviewSolution
This section includes InterviewSolutions, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
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What Is Basic Teradata Query Language? |
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How Do You Create A Table With An Existing Structure Of Another Table With Data And With No Data? |
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Answer» CREATE table Customerdummy as CUSTOMER with DATA / with no data Create table Customerdummy as Customer with data / with no data |
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What Is The Opening Step In Basic Teradata Query Script? |
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Answer» LOGON tdipid/username, PASSWORD. Logon tdipid/username, password. |
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Did You Write Stored Procedures In Teradata? |
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Answer» No, because they become a single AMP OPERATION and my COMPANY didn’t encourage that. No, because they become a single amp operation and my company didn’t encourage that. |
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There Is A Column With Date In It. If I Want To Get Just Month How It Can Be Done? Can I Use Sub String? |
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Answer» Sub string is used with char FIELDS. So it cannot be used. To extract month from a DATE COLUMN, ex select extract (month from ). Same THING for year or day. Or hour or minutes if it’s a time stamp (select extract (MINUTE from column name). Sub string is used with char fields. So it cannot be used. To extract month from a date column, ex select extract (month from ). Same thing for year or day. Or hour or minutes if it’s a time stamp (select extract (minute from column name). |
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While Creating Table My Dba Has Fallback Or No Fallback In His Ddl. What Is That? |
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Answer» FALLBACK REQUESTS that a second copy of each ROW INSERTED into a table be stored on another AMP in the same cluster. This is done when AMP goes down or disk fails. FALLBACK requests that a second copy of each row inserted into a table be stored on another AMP in the same cluster. This is done when AMP goes down or disk fails. |
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How To Find Duplicates In A Table? |
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Answer» Group by those FIELDS and SELECT ID, COUNT(*) from table group by id having count (*) > 1. Group by those fields and select id, count(*) from table group by id having count (*) > 1. |
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Syntax For Case When Statement? |
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Answer» CASE value_expression_1 WHEN value_expression_n THEN scalar_expression_n END; CASE value_expression_1 WHEN value_expression_n THEN scalar_expression_n END; |
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How Do You Determine The Number Of Sessions? |
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What Is Real Time Data Warehousing? |
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What Is Real Time And Near Real Time Data Warehousing? |
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Answer» The difference between real time and near real time can be summed up in one word: latency. Latency is the time LAG that is between an ACTIVITY completion and the completed activity DATA being available in the data WAREHOUSE. In real time, the latency is negligible whereas in near real time the latency is a tangible time frame such as TWO hours. The difference between real time and near real time can be summed up in one word: latency. Latency is the time lag that is between an activity completion and the completed activity data being available in the data warehouse. In real time, the latency is negligible whereas in near real time the latency is a tangible time frame such as two hours. |
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What Is A Three-tier Data Warehouse? |
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Answer» The three-tier differs from the two-tier architecture by strictly enforcing a logical separation of the graphical user interface, business logic, and data. The three-tier is WIDELY used for data WAREHOUSING today. Organizations that REQUIRE greater performance and scalability, the three-tier architecture may be more appropriate. In this architecture, data extracted from legacy systems is cleansed, transformed, and stored in high –speed database SERVERS, which are used as the target database for front-end data access. The three-tier differs from the two-tier architecture by strictly enforcing a logical separation of the graphical user interface, business logic, and data. The three-tier is widely used for data warehousing today. Organizations that require greater performance and scalability, the three-tier architecture may be more appropriate. In this architecture, data extracted from legacy systems is cleansed, transformed, and stored in high –speed database servers, which are used as the target database for front-end data access. |
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Differentiate Database Data And Data Warehouse Data? |
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Answer» Data in a Database is Detailed or Transactional, Both READABLE and WRITE able and current. Data in data WAREHOUSE is detailed and summarized, storage place for HISTORICAL data. Data in a Database is Detailed or Transactional, Both Readable and Write able and current. Data in data warehouse is detailed and summarized, storage place for historical data. |
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Steps To Create A Data Model? |
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How Many Codd’s Rules Are Satisfied By Teradata Database? |
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Answer» There are 12 codd’s RULES applied to the TERADATA database. There are 12 codd’s rules applied to the teradata database. |
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Does Sdlc Changes When You Use Teradata Instead Of Oracle? |
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Answer» If the teradata is going to be only a DATA base means It won’t change the System DEVELOPMENT life CYCLE (SDLC). If you are going to use the teradata utilities then it will change the Architecture or SDLC. If your SCHEMA is going to be in 3NF then there won’t be huge in change. If the teradata is going to be only a data base means It won’t change the System development life cycle (SDLC). If you are going to use the teradata utilities then it will change the Architecture or SDLC. If your schema is going to be in 3NF then there won’t be huge in change. |
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What Is Meant By Teradata Gateway? |
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Answer» Just like channel driver, TERADATA Gateway acts as a medium of communication between the Parse Engine and applications that are ATTACHED to network clients. Only ONE Gateway is assigned PER node. Just like channel driver, Teradata Gateway acts as a medium of communication between the Parse Engine and applications that are attached to network clients. Only one Gateway is assigned per node. |
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