DB Administration Interview Questions
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how does an oracle clusterware manage crs resources?

Oracle,

561

what are the performance views in an oracle rac environment?

Oracle,

549

who owns the operating system files created by the utl_file package?

Oracle,

553

how can you initialize log miner?

Oracle,

568

What is a correlated sub-query? : sql server DBA

577

How do you trace the traffic hitting a sql server? : sql server DBA

832

What are the different types of database compression introduced in sql server 2008? : sql server DBA

556

How can you control the amount of free space in your index pages? : sql server DBA

719

What is the importance of a recovery model? : sql server DBA

544

What the different topologies in which replication can be configured? : sql server DBA

644

What purpose does the model database server? : sql server DBA

615

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

550

What are the recovery models for a database? : sql server DBA

580

What is the difference between the 2 operating modes of database mirroring? : sql server DBA

505

What the different types of replication and why are they used? : sql server DBA

548


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What types of replication are supported in sql server? : sql server DBA

591


What purpose does the model database server? : sql server DBA

615


Other than making use of the statspack utility, what would you check when you are monitoring or running a health check on an Oracle 8i or 9i database?

1547


Database is hung. Old and new user connections alike hang on impact. What do you do? Your SYS SQLPLUS session IS able to connect.

1537


How would you go about verifying the network name that the local_listener is currently using?

2748






what functionality does oracle provide to secure sensitive information?

543


What are statistics, under what circumstances they go out of date, how do you update them?

1799


What the different components in replication and what is their use? : sql server DBA

531


Why does Oracle not permit the use of PCTUSED with indexes?

2314


Oracle client is not able to connect to Oracle server although tnsnames.ora file has valid enteries. Oracle error message is “ cannot resolve net service name”. Mention any three reasons.

2051


What is transparent data encryption? : sql server DBA

557


who owns the operating system files created by the utl_file package?

553


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

3931


how can you find out if a table can be redefined?

591


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

593