Re: Interview question

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_bestweb.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:26:20 GMT
Message-ID: <0rqE6.770$qp.100150@newshog.newsread.com>

OK That's what I thought. Prevention is all you can do. But the interviewer indicated another DBA had told him what could be done and seemed surprised I didn't know all about it. Just wanted to make sure.

Thanks,

Van

"Daniel A. Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3AE131C4.E203CADA_at_exesolutions.com...
> Doesn't sound like a serious question to me. Sounds like the person
interviewing
> you had it happen minutes before and was hoping you would bail him out.
>
> How to prevent it when you rerun is the only relevant issue.
>
> Daniel A. Morgan
>
>
> Van Messner wrote:
>
> > A question came up in an interview recently. You're running a very
long
> > query and get a snapshot too old error. What's the best thing to do at
that
> > time? The interviewer didn't want to know how to prevent this problem
but
> > what to do about it when you were right in the middle of it. What's the
> > best answer?
> >
> > Van
>
Received on Sat Apr 21 2001 - 20:26:20 CDT