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What are Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD), and how would you implement them for tracking customer data changes?

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Swiggy
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342

What are partitioning strategies in Redshift?

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Persistent Systems
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343

What are some best practices for writing efficient SQL queries?

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Freecharge
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344

What are the differences between normalization and denormalization? When would you use a denormalized structure?

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McKinsey
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345

What are the types of views?

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Ford
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346

What challenges arise with duplicate records, and how do you address them?

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EPAM
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347

What factors determine the optimal number of partitions for a large file?

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TCS
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348

What inspires you to join Walmart?

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Walmart
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349

What is Left Anti Join and its use case?

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Altimetrik
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350

What is Redshift Spectrum, and how does it differ from standard Redshift queries?

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Daniel Wellington
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351

What is UNNEST and provide a query example?

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EY
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352

What is a Kafka topic, and how do you choose the number of partitions for it?

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Citi
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353

What is a cross-join?

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Altimetrik
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354

What is a semi-join?

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Altimetrik
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355

What is dynamic partition pruning, and how does it optimize query execution?

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TCS
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356

What is the difference between UNION and UNION ALL? Which one is faster and why?

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Aarete
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357

What is the difference between static and dynamic partitioning in Hive?

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Dunnhumby
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358

What is the role of a partition in Kafka, and how does it impact scalability?

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Citi
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359

What is your motivation to join Google?

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Google
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360

What is your preferred location, and how soon can you join?

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EPAM
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