Could be anything. Questions could range from syntax to theory to business
situations. We look for experienced people, so our questions are deigned to
determine if the candidate has real working experience, or is just "book
smart". Our questions start off easy and get harder. First question (and
you'd be surprised how many can't answer this) is, "How do you get the
system date and time in a Select statement?" Even if the candidate misses
that, we'll ask a few more easy ones just to be certain. We then go on to
things like, describe an outer join, what is a Cartesian product and how can
it be avoided, how can you use TRUNCATE in PL/SQL, tell us about a situation
where you had to deal with a difficult user, and so on...
<bgwillia_at_vcu.edu> wrote in message news:a91t8e$6g14$2_at_mercury.vcu.edu...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm about to have a technical interview over the phone on Oracle. The
> position is for a SQL coder with some knowlege of the vi text editor and
> maybe a little bit of UNIX to boot. Since I've never had an Oracle
> technical interview I wondered from the seasoned professionals about what
> was asked and to look out for. Or maybe what was the strangest Oracle
> question you got in a technical interview?
>
> btw, I did one on COBOL/CICS and messed that up badly :-(
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Boyce Williams
Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 11:43:07 CDT
