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[Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, so you work for Microsoft then.... 
 all famous MS Interview questions. 

 On 6/30/05, Dougie McGibbon <DMcGibbon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> Not an Oracle interview, but for my current position as Sneior DBA, I was 
> asked -
>  Why are manhole covers round ?
>  If you were transported back into the 14th century, how would you 
> convince the pope that the Earth was round ?
>  You are standing on a yacht sitting on a small lake, if you find a 
> boulder on the deck of the yacht and roll it over the side into the water, 
> what happens to the water level of the lake ?
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> *From:* Goulet, Dick [mailto:DGoulet@xxxxxxxx] 
> *Sent:* Friday, July 01, 2005 8:25 AM
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> 
> Yeah, they do. The question I got was "How would you transit a Black 
> Hole?"
> 
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> 
>  Well, everyone knows that.
>  1) It depends on the ethnicity of the swallow
> 2) What you get when you multiply six by eight
> 3) The shade of purple with the most vowels
>  I'm sure they'll ask something a bit more arcane... but you always look 
> on the bright side of life.
>  Bambi.
> 
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> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Gogala, Mladen
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:10 PM
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> 
> Yes it is. It is like Spanish Inquisition and nobody expects 
> the Spanish Inquisition. They asked the following questions: 
> 
> 1) Air velocity of an unladen swallow. 
> 2) The answer to the question of life, universe and everything. 
> 3) The color of the database which takes the least amount of RAM. 
> 
> -- 
> Mladen Gogala 
> Ext. 121 
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> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:59 PM 
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> 
> Hello all 
> 
> Someone I know has a graduate interview with Oracle. Has anyone else had 
> the same , and if so, what sort of questions do they ask you? Is it any 
> different than your normal interview? 
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com