Re: Questions for a Jr. DBA
- From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 20:11:41 -0600
Depending on what you have him/her doing, you might ask:
the basic steps to tuning a query.
What to do if you have a bunch of processes blocked.
what to do in case of an ora-600/ora-7445
maybe some basic change control
what to do with an archiver hung error.
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> So, I am in the process of reviewing resumes from several JR and SSR
> candidates for the team. The question I came up with is, what kind of
> questions (technical) should I ask during the interview. I can't use the
> same questions I'd use with a Sr. DBA.
>
> The questions i've come up with so far are the following:
> 1. Difference between EXTENT and BLOCK
> 2. Difference between USER and ROLE. When would you use each?
> 3. Command to extend a Tablespace (tricky question? should it be datafile?)
> 4. Command to backup controlfiles (all you can think of)
> 5. Steps to switch archivelog on or off.
> 6. Minimum requirements in order to take a level 1 online backup (tricky
> question?)
> 7. What are the minimum required files to be backed up in order to be able
> to recreate the database from scratch in the event of complete media
> failure?
>
> I may come up with more, but that's what I have so far...
>
> thanks in advance
> Alan.-
>
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