The Oracle DBA interview question I like to ask these days is.... "Do you
know MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQL Server"
: )
Stojan.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:44 AM MARK BRINSMEAD <mark.brinsmead@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Like I said, it depends on the *sort* of trivia. :-)
Questions designed to test whether or not you know the exact spelling of
an initialization parameter or DBA_ view name are not really terribly
useful.
Questions designed to test whether you understand what a "rolling upgrade"
is, or perhaps whether you appreciate (and can explain) the difference
between a logical and a physical standby *might* be. Heck, asking a DBA
(candidate) to describe the differences between RAID-1 and RAID-5 might be
very informative, too, although it might be partially testing the age of
the candidate. (With storage as virtualized as it is, how many people
still use RAID-1 or RAID-5 in their pure forms these days?)
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Mladen Gogala <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
On 06/04/2015 01:46 PM, MARK BRINSMEAD wrote:
I am not really sure how well testing "Oracle trivia" measures skill.
Well, it depends on the *sort* of trivia, I suppose.
In my humble opinion, the knowledge of Oracle trivia shows you the level
of the candidate's immersion in the Oracle world and the degree to which
the candidate follows literature and the latest events. I used to ask about
the usual computer geek trivia, like the airspeed velocity of an unladen
swallow or the answer to the question of life, universe and everything,
just to see whether I am dealing with a genuine computer geek. I
discontinued such a practice, because I have encountered several genuine
computer geeks who haven't read Douglas Adams and watched Monty Python,
Blackadder or Red Dwarf.
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBAhttp://mgogala.freehostia.com
