SQL SERVER – Data Warehousing Interview Questions and Answers – Introduction

July 25, 2007

This series is in response to many of my reader’s continuous request to start Data Warehousing Interview Questions and Answers series. This series is written in the same spirit as previous two series which has received good response.

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What is Data Warehousing?
A data warehouse is the main repository of an organization’s historical data, its corporate memory. It contains the raw material for management’s decision support system. The critical factor leading to the use of a data warehouse is that a data analyst can perform complex queries and analysis, such as data mining, on the information without slowing down the operational systems (Ref:Wikipedia). Data warehousing collection of data designed to support management decision making. Data warehouses contain a wide variety of data that present a coherent picture of business conditions at a single point in time. It is a repository of integrated information, available for queries and analysis.

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Complete Series of SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers
SQL SERVER – Data Warehousing Interview Questions and Answers – Introduction
SQL SERVER – Data Warehousing Interview Questions and Answers – Part 1
SQL SERVER – Data Warehousing Interview Questions and Answers – Part 2
SQL SERVER – Data Warehousing Interview Questions and Answers – Part 3
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