August 30, 2016 at 3:51 am
Interviews...
I've had few fun ones over the years. Normally on the non technical side.
But I was once asked what are the three tables you can access in a trigger. Turned out the person asking wasn't technical (red flag there) and had to go by the answer he was given, by the DBA! A real red flag there!
I once had a 8 person panel interview (2 dba's, 2 other IT, 2 BA's and 2 other people)... And none of them had heard of Kimberly or Paul!
I've even been given a psychometric test for a 3 month contract role. Which seemed over kill
One thing I have learnt, to my expense, the interview isn't over until you have left building, shaken hands, and are at least a mile away! It involves football and team sponsorship. Oops.
Rodders...
August 30, 2016 at 5:40 am
WayneS (8/29/2016)
It's just another skill that you need to practice. Go on every interview you can - even those where you already know that you don't want that job - just to do the interview. For those where you know you don't want the job, feel free to turn the tables on them. Go on all of these interviews until you would feel comfortable enough to sit back, put your feet up on the table, and do the interview that way. Now, you're ready to go on serious interviews.
I never quite got *that* comfortable, but I might have been a touch over-confident in my last interview, to the extent where (conscious that most of the time I had been talking tech with one of the guys), I turned to the other guy and asked "how am I doing?".
Dear Reader, I got the job. Well, short-term contract. And I'm still there, they having extended the gig...
Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com
August 30, 2016 at 5:50 am
rodjkidd (8/30/2016)
Interviews...I've had few fun ones over the years. Normally on the non technical side.
But I was once asked what are the three tables you can access in a trigger. Turned out the person asking wasn't technical (red flag there) and had to go by the answer he was given, by the DBA! A real red flag there!
At which point I would do the Monty Python thing (African or European) and ask if they were talking about database triggers or table triggers. But I get your point.
One thing I have learnt, to my expense, the interview isn't over until you have left building, shaken hands, and are at least a mile away!
So true.
August 30, 2016 at 6:00 am
jasona.work (8/29/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (8/29/2016)
Well my thought is that there are many people who are absolutely terrified of interviews, who don't see themselves doing well no matter what they actually know./Me raises hand
I so *hate* interviewing...
Me too.
I used to like interviewing when recruitment was sensibly organised. But these days recruitment is mostly carried out using the utterly broken and disfunctional recruitment agency system and interviewing candidates at firms using that system is sheer hell (quite often the agent will have sold the candidate a job totally different from the one on offer, and the CV/Resumé the agent sent you isn't anything the candidate actually supplied or would have dreamt of writing or even has ever seen).
Tom
August 30, 2016 at 6:33 am
Brandie Tarvin (8/30/2016)
rodjkidd (8/30/2016)
Interviews...I've had few fun ones over the years. Normally on the non technical side.
But I was once asked what are the three tables you can access in a trigger. Turned out the person asking wasn't technical (red flag there) and had to go by the answer he was given, by the DBA! A real red flag there!
At which point I would do the Monty Python thing (African or European) and ask if they were talking about database triggers or table triggers. But I get your point.
One thing I have learnt, to my expense, the interview isn't over until you have left building, shaken hands, and are at least a mile away!
So true.
Well it was 2000 or 2005 version. I was rather young at the time, so it was enough for me to say Inserted, Deleted there is no Updated...
I got asked back for part 2 and was asked if I could repair an Apple Mac. I decided then it was good time to runway from that potential job.
But yes I hope now I could throw in a joke or two that references Monty Python or Hitch-Hikers 🙂
Rodders...
August 30, 2016 at 7:33 am
Brandie Tarvin (8/30/2016)
rodjkidd (8/30/2016)
Interviews...I've had few fun ones over the years. Normally on the non technical side.
But I was once asked what are the three tables you can access in a trigger. Turned out the person asking wasn't technical (red flag there) and had to go by the answer he was given, by the DBA! A real red flag there!
At which point I would do the Monty Python thing (African or European) and ask if they were talking about database triggers or table triggers. But I get your point..
It's a question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird carrying a one-pound coconut...
I'm curious if you also quote use Monty Python quotes at work.
August 30, 2016 at 8:17 am
Ed Wagner (8/30/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (8/30/2016)
rodjkidd (8/30/2016)
Interviews...I've had few fun ones over the years. Normally on the non technical side.
But I was once asked what are the three tables you can access in a trigger. Turned out the person asking wasn't technical (red flag there) and had to go by the answer he was given, by the DBA! A real red flag there!
At which point I would do the Monty Python thing (African or European) and ask if they were talking about database triggers or table triggers. But I get your point..
It's a question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird carrying a one-pound coconut...
I'm curious if you also quote use Monty Python quotes at work.
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate???
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August 30, 2016 at 8:45 am
Ray K (8/30/2016)
Ed Wagner (8/30/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (8/30/2016)
rodjkidd (8/30/2016)
Interviews...I've had few fun ones over the years. Normally on the non technical side.
But I was once asked what are the three tables you can access in a trigger. Turned out the person asking wasn't technical (red flag there) and had to go by the answer he was given, by the DBA! A real red flag there!
At which point I would do the Monty Python thing (African or European) and ask if they were talking about database triggers or table triggers. But I get your point..
It's a question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird carrying a one-pound coconut...
I'm curious if you also quote use Monty Python quotes at work.
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate???
Of course not. African swallows are non-migratory.
August 30, 2016 at 8:46 am
So, if you've got a slow database and you know it's a disk issue and the boss wants it fixed yesterday and he wants it to blaze along for some time to come, get him to purchase one (or two) of these for the problem server:
Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something
Five full drive writes a day for five years? This is serious[/url]
That ought to keep him happy for a couple years!
August 30, 2016 at 11:00 am
Ed Wagner (8/30/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (8/30/2016)
rodjkidd (8/30/2016)
Interviews...I've had few fun ones over the years. Normally on the non technical side.
But I was once asked what are the three tables you can access in a trigger. Turned out the person asking wasn't technical (red flag there) and had to go by the answer he was given, by the DBA! A real red flag there!
At which point I would do the Monty Python thing (African or European) and ask if they were talking about database triggers or table triggers. But I get your point..
It's a question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird carrying a one-pound coconut...
I'm curious if you also quote use Monty Python quotes at work.
When appropriate. There are so many sources to choose appropriate quotes from, though. I like to spread it around. Like talking about the Force when someone asks me to do something nigh impossible.
August 30, 2016 at 11:02 am
jasona.work (8/30/2016)
So, if you've got a slow database and you know it's a disk issue and the boss wants it fixed yesterday and he wants it to blaze along for some time to come, get him to purchase one (or two) of these for the problem server:Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something
Five full drive writes a day for five years? This is serious[/url]
That ought to keep him happy for a couple years!
I've been drooling over that since I heard about it last week. 😛
August 30, 2016 at 11:51 am
Brandie Tarvin (8/30/2016)
Ed Wagner (8/30/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (8/30/2016)
rodjkidd (8/30/2016)
Interviews...I've had few fun ones over the years. Normally on the non technical side.
But I was once asked what are the three tables you can access in a trigger. Turned out the person asking wasn't technical (red flag there) and had to go by the answer he was given, by the DBA! A real red flag there!
At which point I would do the Monty Python thing (African or European) and ask if they were talking about database triggers or table triggers. But I get your point..
It's a question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird carrying a one-pound coconut...
I'm curious if you also quote use Monty Python quotes at work.
When appropriate. There are so many sources to choose appropriate quotes from, though. I like to spread it around. Like talking about the Force when someone asks me to do something nigh impossible.
Monty Python, The Matrix, Star Wars and The Princess Bride all have many great quotes to pull from.
August 30, 2016 at 12:57 pm
jasona.work (8/30/2016)
So, if you've got a slow database and you know it's a disk issue and the boss wants it fixed yesterday and he wants it to blaze along for some time to come, get him to purchase one (or two) of these for the problem server:Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something
Five full drive writes a day for five years? This is serious[/url]
That ought to keep him happy for a couple years!
Remember to pray for an absence of serious hotspots on any of those.
Tom
August 30, 2016 at 1:57 pm
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
August 30, 2016 at 2:08 pm
Lynn Pettis (8/30/2016)
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Inconceivable!!
:hehe:
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