What was all of that about swallows, anyway?
And Bambi, didn't your last name formerly end with an s?
It's great to have you back on the list, in any event.
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Kirti --
I've had that experience too. I generally start a telephone
interview
hopping
How salty is the water?
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Bellow, Bambi
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Bill --
I appreciate your input to this very complex question. IMHO, however, she
turned me into a newt! is, technically, an interview *statement* rather
than
I ask things like tell me the thing you've done that you are most
proud of and tell me your nightmare situation and how did you recover
from it
Ans: My worst nightmare, my date pick her nose infront of me, I call cab infront of
her.
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2) Are you any good ?
Works every time ;)
Richard
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Only two questions are required to ensure you get an appropriate person
for
the job (any job):
1) What do you think of David Bowie, is he brilliant or what ?
David who?
Shall we sign the contracts now? ;)
Tanel.
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On 10/28/2003 06:59:24 AM, Richard Foote wrote:
1) What do you think of David Bowie, is he brilliant or what ?
Or what.
and providing they answer the above question positively
2) Are you any good ?
I'm ad to the one.
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Note:
This message is for the named
You're likely to get the kind of response my kids would give:
Wasn't he with the Beatles or the Stones or some other *old*
band like that?
Hell, my son considers the Offspring to be over the hill and Linkin Park
as starting to lose it...
About 7 years ago, I interviewed someone who
I am shocked Tim you forgot Robbin Trower :-).
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You're likely to get the kind of response my kids would give:
Wasn't he with the Beatles or the Stones or some other *old*
band like
Give whisky, scotch and beer to Mladen and he'll be good
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Mladen Gogala
Sent: 28 octobre, 2003 08:59
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
On 10/28/2003 06:59:24 AM, Richard Foote wrote:
1) What do you think of David Bowie, is he brilliant or what ?
Or
Oddly, I was thinking the same thing about Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
And then I thought... NAAH. Grail is the only common denominator that I
know of that all technical geeks have in common... but now that its some
obscene number of years old, I've been on a quest to find another one... a
Bellow, Bambi scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:
Oddly, I was thinking the same thing about Monty Python and the Holy
Grail. And then I thought... NAAH. Grail is the only common
denominator that I know of that all technical geeks have in common...
but now that its some obscene number
How about Life of Brian? That's even better then the Holy Grail.
On 10/28/2003 01:19:25 PM, Thater, William wrote:
Bellow, Bambi scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:
Oddly, I was thinking the same thing about Monty Python and the Holy
Grail. And then I thought... NAAH. Grail is the
Proud?
landing a rock to fakie followed by a fakie 360 in near vertnot bad for
a 41 yo
Nightmare?
Playing a particularly embarrasing gig with a manic dreppressive folk music
ogre, 120 minutes of pure hell in front of an audience. I refused to play
anymore gigs with him.
Do I get the
-
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:44 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: dba interview questions
How about Life of Brian? That's even better then the Holy Grail.
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You're likely to get the kind of response my kids would give:
Wasn't he with the Beatles or the Stones or some other *old*
band like that?
Hell, my son considers the Offspring to be over
: dba interview questions
How about Life of Brian? That's even better then the Holy Grail.
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, 2003 12:44 PM
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Subject: Re: dba interview questions
How about Life of Brian? That's even better then the
Holy Grail.
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From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 05:44
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Subject: Re: dba interview questions
How about Life of Brian? That's even better then the Holy Grail.
You're right, Mladen ... because
Better still, sometimes 'X' takes the questions while 'Y' the candidate just stands next to him
because 'X' can answer but Y does not.
Tel.int means you (most probably) have not seen the guys face..correct??
By the time Visa gets approved (if overseas candidate), 'Y' ensures that he 'gains'
Kirti
--
I've
had that experience too. I generally start a telephone interview hopping
around the person's resume and asking questions about individual jobs... what
did they do here... what do they mean by that there what was the environment
over there... was management supportive in
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Another bumper sticker seen today:
That was Zen, this is Tao.
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Bumper sticker sighted just the other day:
My karma ran over your dogma
How about
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From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:44 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: dba interview questions
How about Life
Bill --
I appreciate your input to this very complex question. IMHO, however, she
turned me into a newt! is, technically, an interview *statement* rather
than an interview *question*. That being said, it can be used at the
beginning or end of the interview to set tone, but lesser candidates
developer questions
From: Kirtikumar Deshpande
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Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 09:49:26 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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Subject: Re: dba interview questions
The problem with such lists is that the prospects
also have those...
A few years
A French or English Swallow?
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 5:39 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Mladen --
I'm *stunned* you missed the most obvious of all DBA 101 questions...
What is the average air velocity of an unladen swallow?
Bambi.
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
Bellow, Bambi scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:
Mladen --
I'm *stunned* you missed the most obvious of all DBA 101 questions...
What is the average air velocity of an unladen swallow?
African or European?;-)
--
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I'm going to work my ticket if
Title: RE: dba interview questions
That's the inherent problem with using those kinds of lists and books is that both sets of people can read and glean.
April Wells
Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA
Corporate Systems
Amarillo Texas
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Few people really enjoy the simple
Cary Millsap scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:
Bambi,
Be careful. Many will fall in love with you if you continue to submit
such things as this to the list.
how about:
she turned me into a newt!
a newt?
i got better.
--
Bill Shrek Thater ORACLE DBA
I'm going to work my
find that most employers ask the same easy questions. Particularly developer
questions
From: Kirtikumar Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 09:49:26 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dba interview questions
The problem
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
. Particularly developer
questions
From: Kirtikumar Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 09:49:26 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dba interview questions
The problem with such lists is that the prospects also have
Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:
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
but that would provide that the company actually know how to define job
duties and then convey them
wait, the people you interview can read? :)
we've had this discussion off and on on this list over the last few
years.
I've been on interviews where one of the questions was about what
display setting I needed to make in order to do an install. This is
Oracle? This is also documented in the
questions. Particularly
developer questions
From: Kirtikumar Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 09:49:26 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dba interview questions
The problem with such lists is that the prospects also have those
We prefer to ask their experiences and then throw a curve ball and ask them to defend
it. Small issues like Why would/wouldn't an index help? etc ...
Another question that I *always* ask is what do you or have you read in last 3 months
outside of Oracle manuals? or Do you know any other sites
On 10/24/2003 11:04:34 AM, Thater, William wrote:
but that would provide that the company actually know how to define
job
duties and then convey them to HR who would then be able to screen
applicants on actual experience and not just groups of letters.
Now we are talking about the job description
Bill
So you are an HR person with a well-written job description in hand and a
stack of resumes on the other (how may would you say a job posting would
garner today -- 200?) It has been a long week of major and minor employee
issues and the hiring manager has begun making ugly noises about when
: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 11:29:25 EDT
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Subject: RE: Re: dba interview questions
Ryan
Would that diagram be in Effective Oracle by Design by Tom Kyte? Can
you elaborate?
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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That's more like it. The recent postings re this thread got too serious and
all suffered from the same fatal flaw - they assumed that the interviewer
knows something about Oracle database administration. But then you don't
need a list of interview questions. Those lists are for interviewers who
Let me continue the story. Around 11PM you want to watch a movie, so
you decide to pick a few candidates, according to their letterheads,
the overall outlook of the resume , resounding company names that they
worked for (no matter in what capacity), the school they attended and
the overall
AM 11:39:33 EDT
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Subject: RE: dba interview questions
We prefer to ask their experiences and then throw a curve ball and ask them to
defend it. Small issues like Why would/wouldn't an index help? etc ...
Another question that I
:33 EDT
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Subject: RE: dba interview questions
We prefer to ask their experiences and then throw a curve ball and ask them to
defend it. Small issues like Why would/wouldn't an index help? etc ...
Another question that I *always* ask
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kirtikumar_desh cc:
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@yahoo.com
I have had a couple of interviews for Oracle DBA jobs where they pull out a
list of technical questions about the most minor items you can think of.
Being able to answer them indicates how good a person's grey brain cells are
at memorizing trivia. They do not measure a persons ability to problem
as well. especially if they are part of a development team. I dont think
the skill sets should be seperate. they overlap.
From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 11:39:33 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: dba interview
of a
development team. I dont think the skill sets should be seperate. they
overlap.
From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 11:39:33 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: dba interview questions
We prefer to ask
of a development
team. I dont think the skill sets should be seperate. they overlap.
From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 11:39:33 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: dba interview questions
We prefer to ask their experiences
Title: RE: Re: dba interview questions
and at least if someone takes the time to read a book and get the whole picture, they have some kind of gumshun.
April Wells
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Corporate Systems
Amarillo Texas
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Few people really enjoy the simple
Indeed. We all have our thing that we like to focus on. When I hire
someone, I'm more interested in the program running in someone's head
than I am in the data segment that's stored in there.
The far-and-away best interviewing material I've ever seen is the
Effective Interviewing! stuff written
I'm actually appending to Kirti's answer below here.
Before my students receive a passing grade in my class, they are
required to do exactly what Kirti and Connor have laid out. They must
each do this as part of their final exam.
Most of them have no difficulty. When they ask me how they
I've been in the position for over 10 years now in which this was a
candidate algorithm for making decisions. It doesn't work. If you make
decisions this way, you'll ultimately lose your good employees, your
job, or--if it's not stopped--your whole business. It just doesn't work,
because to
/10/24 Fri AM 09:49:26 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dba interview questions
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
.
I find that most employers ask the same easy questions. Particularly
developer questions
From: Kirtikumar Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 09:49:26 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dba interview questions
Sysmgr --
You see now how easy it is to weed out the DBAs who are strong in book
knowledge and may have certifications that are not based on real world
experiencee. Now, I know Mr. M is ok, so I can vouch for him personally;
but, as a general rule, these are not the types of DBAs that you want
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We prefer to ask their experiences and then throw a curve ball and ask
them to defend it. Small issues like Why would/wouldn't an index help?
etc ...
Another question that I *always* ask is what do you or have you read in
last 3 months outside
and then dont read the stuff on OTN.
oracle has very good docs. I do have a beef over lack of syntax examples...
From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 11:39:33 EDT
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: dba interview questions
We
Thursday, October 23, 2003, 4:14:34 PM, you wrote:
sm Dear List,Can anyone send me a list of dba interview questions?
Forget the questions. Somebody send me the answers! :)
Heh. Maybe you could do the interview in Jeopardy format,
where you state the answer, and force the candidate to back
1) What does it mean to grokkk?
2) What is the answer to the question of life, universe and everything?
3) What happened to Sauron when he flipped the bird to Izildur?
4) What is the monolyth and what was its effect on the resident apes?
5) What is damagement? What color of the database saves
Actually, the only important question is
How much do you want ?
Oh, for the good old days ...
Seriously, Mike Ault had a list of questions once which may be a little dated now but
would be a good staert. Perhaps on www.tusc.com where he used to work at. Mike ?
-Original Message-
Mladen --
I'm *stunned* you missed the most obvious of all DBA 101 questions...
What is the average air velocity of an unladen swallow?
Bambi.
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:14 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
1) What does it mean to grokkk?
2) What
and which sql makes server HOT
-ak
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1) What does it mean to grokkk?
2) What is the answer to the question of life, universe and everything?
3) What happened
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Bambi,
Be careful. Many will fall in love with you if you continue to submit
such things as this to the list.
Cary Millsap
Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
http://www.hotsos.com
Upcoming events:
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Bellow, Bambi
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Cary --
I'm just naturally lovable. But you they respect.
Bambi.
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 5:29 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Bambi,
Be careful. Many will fall in love with you if you continue to submit
such things as this to the list.
Cary
Category: Init.ora parameters
points: 1000
Answer: It depends!
Category: CBO
points: 1000
Answer: It depends!
hey! we forgot that one in the book.. DANG!
--- Bellow, Bambi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mladen --
I'm *stunned* you missed the most obvious of all DBA 101 questions...
What is the average air velocity of an unladen swallow?
Bambi.
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Sent: Thursday, October
there are those of us who already worship her wit :)
--- Cary Millsap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bambi,
Be careful. Many will fall in love with you if you continue to submit
such things as this to the list.
Cary Millsap
Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
http://www.hotsos.com
Upcoming events:
Title: RE: dba interview questions
1. 40 hours a week max, right?
2. Bermuda shorts and Hawaiian shirts are considered business casual?
3. What's the daily donut allotment?
4. Health club benefits? (See #3 above)
5. Stock options?
6. Is it OK that my emergency, after-hours phone
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