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A reporting engineer joins sales to customers and requires only sales with a matching customer dimension row.
Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?
An inner join retains records present on both sides of the join condition.
Payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields. That finding does not establish that a sale with a missing customer key is absent from the joined result while matched sales remain.
Only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns. That finding does not establish that a sale with a missing customer key is absent from the joined result while matched sales remain.
The output has one instance of every identical row after explicit deduplication. That finding does not establish that a sale with a missing customer key is absent from the joined result while matched sales remain.
A fraud review must retain every payment, even if no current merchant dimension record exists.
Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?
A left join preserves the full left-side payment population and returns null right-side attributes for unmatched merchants. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.
A left anti join returns only left-side rows without any matching right-side key.
Broadcasting a sufficiently small dimension can avoid a large shuffle join when memory and thresholds permit.
A cross join constructs every pair of rows and can grow explosively for large inputs.
A fraud review must retain every payment, even if no current merchant dimension record exists.
Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?
A left join preserves the full left-side payment population and returns null right-side attributes for unmatched merchants.
The output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys. That finding does not establish that payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields.
The physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints. That finding does not establish that payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields.
The controlled input produces exactly thirty segment-tier pairs. That finding does not establish that payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields.
A warehouse needs to identify which source customer keys have no match in the accepted master customer table.
Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?
A left anti join returns only left-side rows without any matching right-side key. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.
Left semi joins filter the left DataFrame by existence of a right match without adding right-side columns.
Name-based union reduces accidental column swaps when schemas have different field order.
A multi-key join constrains rows to the same account and date rather than multiplying cross-date matches.
A warehouse needs to identify which source customer keys have no match in the accepted master customer table.
Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?
A left anti join returns only left-side rows without any matching right-side key.
Only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns. That finding does not establish that the output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys.
Rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column. That finding does not establish that the output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys.
Each fact row matches only the dimension record with its key and effective date. That finding does not establish that the output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys.
A new cohort query needs the rows from transactions that have an eligible customer, without repeating columns from the customer table.
Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?
Left semi joins filter the left DataFrame by existence of a right match without adding right-side columns. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.
Broadcasting a sufficiently small dimension can avoid a large shuffle join when memory and thresholds permit.
PySpark DataFrame union appends rows without guaranteeing deduplication; distinct is a separate operation.
SQL and DataFrame ordinary equality do not match null to null; null-safe comparison has different semantics.
A new cohort query needs the rows from transactions that have an eligible customer, without repeating columns from the customer table.
Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?
Left semi joins filter the left DataFrame by existence of a right match without adding right-side columns.
The physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints. That finding does not establish that only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns.
The output has one instance of every identical row after explicit deduplication. That finding does not establish that only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns.
The test demonstrates the chosen null policy, including how two null keys are treated. That finding does not establish that only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns.
A small reference table of 200 categories is repeatedly joined with a very large clickstream table and shuffle costs dominate the job.
Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?
Broadcasting a sufficiently small dimension can avoid a large shuffle join when memory and thresholds permit. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.
Name-based union reduces accidental column swaps when schemas have different field order.
A cross join constructs every pair of rows and can grow explosively for large inputs.
Grouping creates one aggregate per grouping key and sum computes the requested financial measure.
A small reference table of 200 categories is repeatedly joined with a very large clickstream table and shuffle costs dominate the job.
Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?
Broadcasting a sufficiently small dimension can avoid a large shuffle join when memory and thresholds permit.
Rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column. That finding does not establish that the physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints.
The controlled input produces exactly thirty segment-tier pairs. That finding does not establish that the physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints.
Two rows for the same store and day contribute one summed revenue record. That finding does not establish that the physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints.
Two DataFrames have identical logical columns but their physical column orders differ after separate ingestion changes.
Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?
Name-based union reduces accidental column swaps when schemas have different field order. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.
PySpark DataFrame union appends rows without guaranteeing deduplication; distinct is a separate operation.
A multi-key join constrains rows to the same account and date rather than multiplying cross-date matches.
Counting distinct identifiers avoids treating repeated events from one device as separate devices.
Two DataFrames have identical logical columns but their physical column orders differ after separate ingestion changes.
Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?
Name-based union reduces accidental column swaps when schemas have different field order.
The output has one instance of every identical row after explicit deduplication. That finding does not establish that rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column.
Each fact row matches only the dimension record with its key and effective date. That finding does not establish that rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column.
A day with five events from two devices yields a distinct-device count of two. That finding does not establish that rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column.
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