RE: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 20:11:56 +0000
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We’ve tried to find a way to phrase that same question in our interviews, but haven’t quite figured it out yet. We want to ask something like “tell me about a time when you’ve really screwed the pooch, and what have you learned from it?”
Honestly, most of our interviewees (we’re only looking for intro/junior level right now) have been so nervous we haven’t felt like we can lay that on them…
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of McPeak, Matt
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Subject: RE: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
“What’s the silliest mistake you’ve made while sitting at a keyboard?”
Everyone’s got some good ones, right?
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Subject: Re: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
I lived in Schaumburg back in '72 and went to high school there. I'd love to go back and see how it's changed.
A question for the DBA lunch crowd:
"What excites you about being a DBA?"
David Fitzjarrell
Primary author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide"
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 8:38 AM, Mark Bobak <Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com<mailto:Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com>> wrote:
“What’s the most challenging problem you’ve faced, be it a complex database recovery, a difficult performance problem, etc?”
-Mark
From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com<mailto:jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com>>
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Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 10:23 AM
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Subject: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
We've got these dba lunch meetups going in Chicago and we tried something new last week. Started lunch by "introducing" one of the members. The interviewee answers a few questions, and we keep the discussion around each question to a few minutes. Fun way to start lunch and there was still plenty of time for the usual techy chatter afterwards.
My question for this (oracle-l) list: if you could ask a DBA anything, what would you ask?
Here are the four questions we've used so far:
1. how'd you get started with the oracle db? 2. what's the most interesting system or application you've worked on in your career? can you tell us a bit about the architecture? 3. who's your #1 influencer, mentor, or author? 4. what's the #1 thing you need to learn so you'll still have a job in 5-10 years?
BTW - lunch is in deerfield today, schaumburg tomorrow and downtown next wednesday. Just in case anyone is interested in joining. :)
-J
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