Rachel,
OH, come now. We ALL have days when a friendly hole in the floor is welcome!
PS: Netscape has been losing ground to IE ever since AOL acquired it. Seems that Uncle Billy got exactly what he wanted.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 2:24 PM
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My apologies... bringing this up under IE (when did Netscape stop being
a viable browser?) shows the underscores.
and I did not mean to imply that Don is not a practicing DBA, as I know
he is. Some days I really should hide under the covers.
- Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> to quote the article:
>
> 'The handful of applicants who survive the telephone interview can
> expect an interview at the job site and what Burleson calls the
> "teching" of the candidate. He advises interviewers to ask specific
> questions, such as "What is the default password for the sys user in
> Oracle?"
>
> There's no faking answers to those questions, and an interviewer can
> easily judge the technical skills of the candidates. "Only a
> practicing
> DBA knows the answer is 'changeoninstall,'" Burleson said. "A
> seasoned
> DBA can spot a faker instantly."'
>
>
> Um, the default password for sys is "change_on_install" not
> "changeoninstall". Which leads me to one of several conclusions:
>
> either:
> a) Don Burleson is not a practicing DBA
>
> or
>
> b) He was interviewed over the phone and spoke it without indicating
> the underscores, the way most of us would/do
>
> or
>
> c) Someone forgot to proof-read the article.
>
>
> Some recruiter reading the interview will make that an interview
> question and the person being interviewed will "fail" because they
> say/write it correctly. Sheesh
>
>
>
>
> --- Ray Stell <stellr_at_cns.vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
>
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