Here are some SSIS interview questions that you can expect if you interview for the job of ETL Developer. I will be adding more questions and different small scenarios. Good luck with your SQL Server Integration Services interview.
For Video Answers for SSIS Interview Questions , Please check THIS playlist.
General
What is ETL? (Video Answer)
What is Business … Read More →
All Tips
Additional Optimizations for Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimensions in SQL Server Integration Services - Part 3
Backwards Compatibility in SQL Server Data Tools for Integration Services
Data Sampling in SQL Server Integration Services
Debugging Control Flow in SQL Server Integration Services - Part 1
Debugging Control Flow in SQL Server Integration Services – Part 2
Defining Workflow in SSIS … Read More →
Clustered and nonclustered indexes share many of the same internal structures, but they're fundamentally different in nature. Watch Microsoft Certified IT Professional Jon Seigel explain the similarities and differences of clustered and nonclustered indexes, using a real-world example to show how these structures work to improve the performance of SQL queries.
Blog post on primary key … Read More →
While the practice of Continuous Integration (CI) started with application code, you can apply the same principles to databases. Database CI is the process by which we build, test and deploy the database on commit of every database change, and report any errors. In this way, CI reduces your feedback loop such that changes that … Read More →
Resources
The page is dedicated to presentations, scripts, and other resources that are available for download.
Presentations:
SQL Server Audit - Evidence Never Lies - PowerPoint slide deck
SQL Saturday #692 - Atlanta, GA - Jul 15, 2017
SQL Saturday #610 - Richmond, VA - Mar 18, 2017
SQL Saturday #592 - Raleigh, NC - Mar 11, 2017
Policy Based Management - Beyond the Basics … Read More →
xp_dirtree has three parameters:
directory - This is the directory you pass when you call the stored procedure; for example 'D:\Backup'.
depth - This tells the stored procedure how many subfolder levels to display. The default of 0 will display all subfolders.
file - This will either display files as well as each folder. The default of 0 … Read More →
PIVOT Operator
UNPIVOT Operator
A collection of premium SSIS components to enable greater developer productivity and increase the power of SSIS.
The HTTP/Web Services components is a grouping of SSIS add-on components from the SSIS Productivity Pack which facilitate working with HTTP and SOAP or REST based web services within SSIS.
There are currently 6 SSIS components within this category:
HTTP Connection … Read More →
Scripts those can be used by SQL Server DBAs and SQL Server Developers on daily basis.
Data Analysis / Data Validation / Data Cleansing Scripts
How to Search in all Columns for all tables in a database for Date Value in SQL Server
How to Find Percentage of Null Values in every Column of all the Tables in … Read More →
If you are looking for the real time scenarios/ Examples or type of work developer perform on Job as ETL developer. You are looking at the right place. The videos explain different scenarios those can answer your so many questions and also helpful if you are going for SSIS/ETL developer interview.
Starting with SSIS
How to Create … Read More →
In the following example we will looking for the LOCAL FAST_FORWARD parameter in to the declaration of cursor code.
LOCAL
Specifies that the scope of the cursor is local to the batch, stored procedure, or trigger in which the cursor was created. The cursor name is only valid within this scope. The cursor can be referenced by … Read More →
Free SQL Server video tutorial
Connecting to SQL Server
Working with databases
Creating and working with tables
Default Constraint
Cascading referential integrity
Check Constraint
Identity Column
Retrieving identity column value
Unique key constraint
All about select statement
Group By
Basic Joins
Advanced Joins
Self join
Different ways to replace NULL
Coalesce function
Union and Union All
Stored Procedures
Stored Procedures with output parameters
Difference between output … Read More →
SQL Server APPLY operator has two variants; CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY
The CROSS APPLY operator returns only those rows from the left table expression (in its final output) if it matches with the right table expression. In other words, the right table expression returns rows for the left table expression match only.
The OUTER APPLY operator … Read More →
SQL Server Execution Plans, 3rd Edition
by SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey
If a query is performing poorly, and you can't understand why, then that query's execution plan will tell you not only what data set is coming back, but also what SQL Server did, and in what order, to get that data. It will reveal how … Read More →
A curated list of notable ETL (extract, transform, load) frameworks, libraries and software.
Awesome ETL
Workflow Management/Engines
Job Scheduling
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Talks/Articles
Cloud Services
Big Data (Hadoop Stack)
ETL Tools (GUI)
Related Lists
awesome-pipeline
Workflow Management/Engines
Airflow - "Use airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. The airflow scheduler executes your tasks on an array of workers while following the specified dependencies. Rich command … Read More →
Q. What is SSIS?
SSIS was first introduced with SQL Server 2005, which was the next generation of SQL Server software after SQL Server 2000. SSIS is an ETL tool that handles data Extraction, Transformation and load. In addition, it can handle more tasks besides the ETL tasks such as data profiling, file system manipulation etc…. … Read More →
Cardinality
Minimum No. of tables
1:1 cardinality with partial participation of both entities
2
1:1 cardinality with total participation of atleast 1 entity
1
1:n cardinality
2
m:n cardinality
3
Note: This is a general observation. Special cases need to be taken care. We may need extra table if attribute of a relationship can’t be moved to any entity side.
Keys of a relation: There are … Read More →
What are advantages of DBMS over traditional file based systems?
Ans: Database management systems were developed to handle the following dif?culties of typical ?le-processing systems supported by conventional operating systems.
1. Data redundancy and inconsistency
2. Dif?culty in accessing data
3. Data isolation – multiple ?les and formats
4. Integrity problems
5. Atomicity of updates
6. Concurrent access by multiple users
7. Security … Read More →
There is a stored procedure that must be run by only one user at a time. How do to I prevent multiple users from running the stored procedure at the same time?
Solution
SQL Server provides an application manageable lock mechanism through the sp_getapplock / sp_releaseapplock pair of system stored procedures. They provide a way for application … Read More →
In a typical data warehousing application, quite often during the ETL cycle you need to perform INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations on a TARGET table by matching the records from the SOURCE table.
You would need to write separate INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements to refresh the target table with an updated product list or do … Read More →
Beginning back with SQL Server® 2005, Microsoft® integrated the .NET runtime into the database engine. This runtime engine is called the SQL Server Common Language Runtime (CLR), and is commonly referred to as SQLCLR. SQL Server CLR enables you to extend the capabilities of the SQL Server database engine with the rich programming environment of … Read More →