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Real questions from top companies in SQL

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Compare OLTP and OLAP systems in the context of financial transactions.

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Goldman Sachs
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62

Compare PostgreSQL vs Snowflake. How do they handle duplicate record errors?

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Gartner
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63

Compare Redshift, BigQuery, and Snowflake in terms of cost, performance, and scalability.

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BCG
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64

Compare the star schema and snowflake schema. Which one would you use for reporting at Swiggy, and why?

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Swiggy
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65

Connecting BigQuery with Linux

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Verizon
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66

Consolidate hotel reviews and create a dashboard. Design a data model for the reviews.

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Expedia
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67

Converting SCD0 to SCD3

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Nagarro
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68

Create Spark Session, read CSV, join, and write as table. Provide example code.

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FedEx Dataworks
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69

Data Warehouse Design from scratch

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Walmart
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70

Describe a challenging project where you optimized a complex ETL process.

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Goldman Sachs
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71

Describe a situation where you had to redesign a data model to meet changing business needs

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Kagina
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72

Design a Custom API that can query a backend server and return customer data such as the number of orders placed by a user based on their user ID

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Meesho
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73

Design a daily ETL pipeline to ingest API data into BigQuery.

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Google
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74

Design a financial database system focusing on database models, schema design, partition keys, and query optimization techniques.

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Flipkart
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75

Design a relational data model for a sales database, incorporating normalization techniques

SQLhardjoinoptimizationpartition3.6 min read
Morgan Stanley
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76

Design a structure (data model) that allows efficient querying of movies based on multiple search criteria (title, genre, actor, director).

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Wayfair
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77

Design the data model for an ETL pipeline that ingests data from a database and loads it into Snowflake

SQLhardetljoinoptimization3.6 min read
Meesho
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78

Designing backend architecture for SQL Warehouse?

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Snowflake
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79

Designing scalable data models - explain approach

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Lumiq
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80

Difference Between Truncate/Delete and Union/Union All – Performance and Usage

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Presidio
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