DB Administration Interview Questions
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What are the different sql server versions you have worked on? : sql server DBA

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What is transparent data encryption? : sql server DBA

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What are the different authentication modes in sql server and how can you change authentication mode? : sql server DBA

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What are the new features in sql server 2005 when compared to sql server 2000? : sql server DBA

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What are the high-availability solutions in sql server and differentiate them briefly? : sql server DBA

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What happens on checkpoint? : sql server DBA

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When setting replication, can you have distributor on sql server 2005, publisher on sql server 2008? : sql server DBA

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Due to some maintenance being done, the sql server on a failover cluster needs to be brought down. How do you bring the sql server down? : sql server DBA

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What is fill factor? : sql server DBA

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What is the default port no on which sql server listens? : sql server DBA

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What is the difference between dropping a database and taking a database offline? : sql server DBA

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How do you troubleshoot errors in a sql server agent job? : sql server DBA

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What are the commands used in dcl? : sql server DBA

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What are the operating modes in which database mirroring runs? : sql server DBA

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What is a system database and what is a user database? : sql server DBA

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If you are given access to a sql server, how do you find if the sql instance is a named instance or a default instance? : sql server DBA

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how to restore files with rman?

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how can you process messages in order asynchronously?

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what do you understand by fine-grained auditing?

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You have 4 instances running on the same UNIX box. How can you determine which shared memory and semaphores are associated with which instance?

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What would you do with an "in-doubt" distributed transaction?

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which background process invoke at the time of upgradation tell me???

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I got an error SQL1042C. An unexpected system error occurred. Explanation: A system error occurred. One possible reason for this error is that the database manager is not installed correctly or the environment is not set up correctly. On OS/2, while trying to start the database manager, a very common reason for this error is a corrupted NET.ACC file. The command cannot be processed. The tables and views would not be opened. What is the way to open the dataase? pls help me

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Why would you call update statistics? : sql server DBA

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how do we explain a project in cognos in an interview? please help me. Also how do we perform testing in cognos after creating reports?

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What are the different ways you can create databases in sql server? : sql server DBA

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What are the new features in sql server 2005 when compared to sql server 2000? : sql server DBA

606


How many files can a database contain in sql server?how many types of data files exists in sql server? How many of those files can exist for a single database? : sql server DBA

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what is asm?

593


what is grd?

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