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The document contains 40 questions related to various aspects of Informatica ETL processes, including how to generate surrogate keys for large tables, logic for loading data from multiple dimension tables into a fact table, resolving common errors, mapping designs for aggregation before loading all rows, propagating date formats to flat files, performance of connected vs unconnected lookups, effects of unsorted input in aggregations, achieving 100 rows output from 100 rows input without a primary key, activating fields for pre-session stored procedures, conditions used in lookups and joins, uses of reusable sequence generators, overriding SQL in sources or lookups, properties shown when clicking on a flat file target in the workflow,

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Informatica A Questions

The document contains 40 questions related to various aspects of Informatica ETL processes, including how to generate surrogate keys for large tables, logic for loading data from multiple dimension tables into a fact table, resolving common errors, mapping designs for aggregation before loading all rows, propagating date formats to flat files, performance of connected vs unconnected lookups, effects of unsorted input in aggregations, achieving 100 rows output from 100 rows input without a primary key, activating fields for pre-session stored procedures, conditions used in lookups and joins, uses of reusable sequence generators, overriding SQL in sources or lookups, properties shown when clicking on a flat file target in the workflow,

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JEGADHESAN

1. How do u generate surrogate keys for tables with more


than 2 billion records (surrogate key is a primary key
field).
2. What is the logic will you implement to load data into
a fact table from n dimension tables?
3. Suggest a solution for the following error and justify
“WRT_8076 Writer run terminated. [Commit Error]
WRITER_1_*_1> WRT_8333 Rolling back all the
targets due to fatal session error”
4. Explain a mapping design to start aggregating the
values before getting all the rows from the source.
5. How do u propagate date column to a flat file, if u
need format to be DD-MON-YYYY?
6. If a look up returning multiple matching rows, then
how unconnected lookup & connected lookup will
perform? (Not using lookup by last value)
7. If you use sorted I/P option in Aggregator but gave it
Unsorted I/P then what will happen?
8. If I have 100 rows given as I/P to aggregator & want
100 rows as O/P then how can u achieve that? (none of
the columns are primary key)
9. If i use pre-session stored procedure, then i need to
activate another field, what would that be?
10.What are all the conditions (=, Not between) you have
in Lookup & in Joiner?
11.What is the use of Reusable sequence generator (not
in the reusability sense), any other?
12.If i had a flat file, Can i over ride SQL in Source
Qualifier or Lookup?
13.If i have a flat file target, when i click it in the
Workflow manager, what all properties would i get?
14.I have to use Order by, I have a table with columns
A,B,C...I need order by B,C .Do u need to add some
more thing to "select * from TNAME order by B,C" ?
15.What is the use of Return Port & Output port in
Lookup Transformation?
16.If i have used 2 update strategies in my mapping..1
for insert & other for delete, then i changed target
option in session properties from data driven to
delete...then how is my mapping going to perform?
(all deletes or insert & delete)
17.What are the ETL production support issues that one
comes across on a day to day basis?
18. Explain in which scenario unconnected Lookup is
preferred, why?
19.Suggest an approach - one source flat file, how can i
split it into two files using Informatica
20.what is the difference between stop and abort
21. How to import oracle sequence into Informatica.
22. Explain some ways to delete duplicate rows in flat
files source
23. Session is configured with commit interval of 10,000
rows and source has 50,000 rows. Explain the commit
points for Source based commit and Target based
commit.
24. What’s the diff between Informatica power center
server, repository server and repository?
25. Point the features in version 8 compared with 7 and 6,
what is the diff between Informatica 7 and Informatica
8, architecture?
26. How to get the first 100 rows from the flat file.
27.Performance tuning which have been done in ur
current project?
28.Explain a best scenario for using source qualifier
rather than joiner, what are the exceptions &
limitations in both
29. Explain a best mapping design to test multiple
conditions.
30. Explain the logic behind SCD2 – by date, How to do
SCD2 in target flat file?
31. Design a mapping to perform Incremental
aggregation
32. Ways to Update a data
33. Will special Characters gets loaded into the target?
Elaborate code pages
34. Explain a scenario where dynamic lookup can be
used?
35. Explain the task - event wait and event rise, with a
business scenario.
36. Write a filter condition to accept null values from
source. Elaborate the logic
37.Where did u use the UNIX shell scripts in Informatica
projects?
38.1000 records in source system take (flat file or
relational system); want to debug the 582 record only
no other record....... how to do that?
39.Narrate the logic to implement OR in lookup
condition
40. Design a mapping for “SELECT the max(date)
having max(date)< < a particular date>”

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