issues with cubes

[udaychow99]

Hi guys,

Could some one let me know the issues that are happened in cubes very often. I faced this question in an interview.
i know only that cube refresh gets failed if its size exceeds 2 gb.

thanks in advance.

[Lynn]

See point 8.

http://www.cognoise.com/index.php/topic,24030.0.html

[udaychow99]

Hi Lynn,

I have gone through that point but i can't understand how it is related to this post.
I think the question i asked in this post is a valid one and there is scope for discussion.It would help other cognos beginners as well like me.
If you find anything wrong in this post,please let me know so that i won't repeat it again.

Cheers!

[MFGF]

Well, I think an interview question like that is designed to gauge your experience with building and deploying cubes. If the only issue you have experienced is breaking the 2Gb file size threshold, it sounds like you don't have a lot of history with PowerCubes. This is in no way a bad thing - it just means you don't have years of experience that a potential employer could make use of. it sounds like the interview question yielded exactly the information the prospective employer was looking for.

It's generally not a good practice to try to present yourself as having more experience than you really do. It means that you might be employed under false expectations of your skills, experience and productivity, and that can be a very bad situation - both for you and for the employer. You end up being asked to deliver things you are not familiar with, experienced with, knowledgable about or comfortable with. You get stressed. You fall behind. You miss deadlines. You are either viewed as a liability or as a fraud. You end up getting fired or demoted. Your employer sees you as a weak link in the chain, and a costly mistake on their part. All this because you mis-sold your experience and skills.

Ok - that's an exaggeration, but I'm sure you can see what I am saying here.  It's ok to be a newbie - and to be proud of your fledgling skills and your future potential to learn and develop. Don't be tempted to try to fool interviewers with clever answers that paint your skills in a different light than the truth, though.

Just the ramblings of a senile old muppet...

MF.

[Lynn]

Interviewers ask questions to gauge a candidate's level of experience. Your original question strikes me as looking to find out about other people's experiences so you can then repeat those answers in an interview as if they were your own. Forgive me if that is not your intent.

This entire board is filled with posts about issues encountered with Transformer. There are other types of cubes besides PowerCubes. It would certainly benefit you to review posted issues to gain a greater sense of familiarity with this product, but it cannot replace actual experience.

I would suggest to anyone that they be honest with an interviewer. It would be impressive to answer about what you've read or researched without pretending your answers are based on your own work product. This would show initiative and a desire to learn new things. Conversely, it would be disastrous to be caught faking it as this would show dishonesty and a lack of integrity.

A good interviewer can determine when someone is parroting memorized answers.

[MFGF]

Agreed!

One more thing to add:

A good interviewer can determine when someone is parroting memorized answers.

All my own work! Honest! ;)