Re: dba interview questions

Pre-packaged questions are always a bad idea. When a company needs a DBA, it should know what do they need him for. Do they need them to monitor and troubleshoot production database and ensure the availability of the database, or help developers, or lead the database related projects or to help clients and install software or mop the floors and grind coffee? The abbreviation "DBA" can be applied to the great variety of business roles, some of which are mutually exclusive. Cary Millsap is using terms "performance analyst" and "performance related projects". Traditionally, companies do not have "performance analysts", they have DBA's performing this function. The abbreviation "DBA" came to mean almos anything short of "performing brain surgery". To make a long story short, the company looking for a DBA should know what specific job functions are they interested in, what specific skills are needed to perform the required job functions and adjust the the interviewing process. For instance, if you need a DBA to go and help your clients, then driver's license would be a requirement. Sounds trivial, but I know a lot of folks from NYC that don't drive and don't have driver's license. Generally speaking, driver's license is not a requirement for the DBA position, but sometimes, it can be.

On 10/24/2003 09:49:26 AM, Kirtikumar Deshpande wrote:
> The problem with such lists is that the prospects also have those...
> A few years ago Mike Ault published one. We used it to screen
> candidates via phone interviews.
> Two out of four I talked to gave me perfect answers: word to word
> from
> Mike's list.
>
> Use Conner's approach: Give the candidate a white/black board, and
> ask
> him/her to draw the SGA
> with all it interal structures, all background processes, and explain
> how all this works
> together.....
>
> - Kirti
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