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How would you read data from a web API? What steps would you follow after reading the data?

General/Othermediumetlpartition0.7 min read
AltimetrikInfosys
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2

What is the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases?

General/Othermediumjoinsql0.7 min read
AareteDunnhumbyFragma Data Systems
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3

Calculate a 7-day moving average of orders for each city in the Swiggy database.

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Swiggy
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4

Calculate the total number of transactions (units sold) for each product.

General/Othermediumjoinsparksql2 min read
WayfairStripe
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5

Data Shuffling Causes and Techniques

General/Othermediumjoinpartitionspark2 min read
Nagarro
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6

Describe the concept of data sharding and when to use it.

General/Othermediumjoinpartition0.6 min read
Goldman Sachs
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7

Fetch the rows with the highest scores for each student in a year.

General/Othermediumjoinpartitionsql0.3 min read
Deolite
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8

Find All Numbers that Appear at Least Three Times Consecutively

General/Othermediumpartition2 min read
Meesho
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9

Find the names of managers who have at least 7 employees directly reporting to them.

General/Othermediumjoinsql1 min read
Deolite
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10

Find top 3 products sold based on total quantity.

General/Othermediumsql2 min read
Comcast
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11

Given the data with id, name, and department, how would you calculate how many employees are in each department?

General/Othermediumsparksqlwindow2 min read
Infosys
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12

How does cluster size impact parallelism limits?

General/Othermediumpartition2 min read
TCS
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13

How would you optimize a slow-running SQL query?

General/Othermediumjoinpartitionsql2 min read
Wipro
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14

How would you implement custom alarms for data delays or job failures?

General/Othermediumairflowpartition0.6 min read
Capco
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15

Reverse operation for splitting values back to original format

General/Othermediumetljoinpython2 min read
Pubmatic
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16

Shell commands for renaming a file?

General/Othermediumwindow2 min read
Citi
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