Yet Another DBA (5/1/2014)
I have interviewed people for DBA positions and have had them not knowing what a null is/ biggest query they have ever written being 25 lines/ not knowing about point in time recovery. So technically poor, but management wanting them because their people skills and we don't need brilliant DBAs because things don't go wrong.
My first couple of questions for a junior DBA are:
1. What do DDL and DML stand for?
2. What are the four DML commands?
2. What type of commands are under the DDL list?
If they have no clue I may keep the interview going for show, but that pretty much tells me they are probably going to be plodders, and not a true DBA. The plodders are good for running the pre-done scripts that you can't make generic enough for a Level I support desk type to run.
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Jim P.
A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.