Re: Interview questions for an Oracle DBA?

MotoX wrote in message
<902388618.7143.0.nnrp-05.c2de712e_at_news.demon.co.uk>...
>Advice - don't have specific questions. Start *conversations* that cover
the
>major areas: backup/recovery, tuning, installation & configuration. Drill
>down in detail as you go, but keep it conversational. That way you'll be
>flexible and can keep things on track as regards what *you* are looking
for,
>and you also get a good feel for what people have actually done and what
>they *really* know. You'll also get a good idea of their personality -
which
>I think is just as important as technical skill.
>

I couldn't agree more. As an I.S. manager myself, I consider the perfect employee to be someone who is able to (and isn't scared to) go out and *find out* the answers when they need to. There are lots of people out there who have absorbed some book knowledge and/or taken the oracle courses, and can answer those interview questions - but present them with a problem in real life that requires digging, or logical analysis, and many of them fail or perform poorly. You need to find someone who is genuinely *interested* in the subject - someone who (metaphorically and perhaps literally) will read manuals for fun. Sometimes the best indicator of such a person is that they know a lot of things that aren't necessarily useful. You have to have a conversation to find out these things, tho'. Received on Thu Aug 06 1998 - 11:30:54 CDT