Common questions asked in SQL Server DBA Interview
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What is the wing span of an unladen swallow?
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Brandie Tarvin (5/14/2012)
What is the wing span of an unladen swallow?It depends. What is the age and current speed of the swallow?
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Jeff Moden (5/14/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (5/14/2012)
What is the wing span of an unladen swallow?It depends. What is the age and current speed of the swallow?
I don't know.
<Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhh>
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Brandie Tarvin (5/14/2012)
Jeff Moden (5/14/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (5/14/2012)
What is the wing span of an unladen swallow?It depends. What is the age and current speed of the swallow?
I don't know.
<Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhh>
Then the likely answer is "enough to sufficiently suffoncify the swallow".
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
tua022012 (9/10/2012)
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I was recently asked to provide questions to be asked for a production DBA. There are no good or bad answers, the person must have encountered most of the scenario’s with understanding on how things work & very quick to react on a highly stressful environment. Below are the questions I provided:Hope it helps
Database Back ups:
** What are the different types of database backups and specify the scenario that you have used in your experience?
High Availability:
** What are the high availability methods ?.Specify your experience and set up required for SQL Server in a clustered environment
DR :
** Specify your DR strategy experience and details for SQL server.
** Specify the steps to take when a database is corrupted (or) server is down (or) harddrive is corrupted.
Performance Tuning :
** All of a sudden a query is running slowly and there are no changes made to application/network or server environment. Based on your experience, specify the steps to debug the issue.
Maintenance Plan:
** Specify based on your experience what maintenance plans are required for a typical database.
Replication:
** Specify your experience in Transaction replication?. Provide details on issues encountered and how to resolve it.
Data Dump:
** How do you migrate data from Prod to QA to Dev environment?
Design:
** How do you carve/select storage for each of the files below:
TempDB
Data file
Log file
backup file
** How do you determine the size of a database based on your experience?
Security:
** Have you worked with secure data?. If so, how do you protect/encrypt the data?
Different types :
** Have you worked in an OLTP and Data warehouse DB’s?. if so, how is the set up different for each type
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Randheer (2/25/2014)
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The link didn't work even when I copied and pasted it.
I did, however, find the questions on your site.--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
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