Those are hard to find. The best answer I can give you is be ready to pay the big bucks. On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I am familiar with appropriate technical questions. The hardest part for me > in interviewing is finding out of the candidate has the right type of > personality. My ideal person is a problem solver who does not complain if > there is a problem but is helpful and tries to fix it. It is also a person > who does not perennially complain if they don't get there way (even if there > way was a better decision, decisions are made and some times mistakes are > made). Also, someone who isn't just a DBA. For example, lets say we have an > OS or network problem and Oracle can't start. The Sys or network admin is > busy or unavailable. The DBA can either try to look into the problem and > diagnose it for them or sit around do nothing, but surf the internet. I find > alot of people complain and say "I am not a sys admin". I prefer people who > are willing to learn knew things. Same thing goes for developers. They may > not know oracle, but will look for new things, then run them by the DBA and > go "what do yout think of this option ?" or try to learn how to tune > queries. They may not be good at it, but they try. > > The kind of people I don't like are the cancer type. One thing goes wrong. > They completely stop working. They send one email and then surf the > internet. Make little to no effort to follow up. Someone gets back to them, > its not perfect. One more email and back to surfing the internet. > > There are alot of people like that. How do you find pro-active, smart > people, with positive attitudes ? > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'