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Sr level interview questions

  • October 30, 2010 at 7:49 am

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    GilaMonster (10/29/2010)

    Alvin Ramard (10/29/2010)

    I've seen someone score 4/10 in an interview for a DBA position. All the questions were either based on something in his resume, or based on the answer he had just given. He did not impress anyone.

    Details? Any particularly memorable 'answers'?

    I've seen someone (who claimed to be a senior DBA) score 0/75 on a DBA technical test where the first question read:

    Write a query that returns the FirstName and Surname columns from a table called Person

    Oh, now THAT's funny! 😛

    --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)

  • October 30, 2010 at 7:52 am

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    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (10/29/2010)

    Don't put in your resume anything that can be used against you or better rephrasing it: don't lie to the extend that your CV is your death warrant.

    Or, as we say in America during "interviews"... "Anything you say can and will be used against you." 😉

    --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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