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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Can you tell me about your experience with the administration of COTS system..? Also, how do you set up seed data..?

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

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Database crashes. Corruption is found scattered among the file system neither of your doing nor of Oracle's. What database recovery options are available? Database is in archive log mode.

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how can you create a user-defined lock?

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what is the use of ocr?

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How to bind a cobol module to a given job? I am not able to understand this concept.Can anyone help me out as how to carry out this task?

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How do you open a cluster administrator? : sql server DBA

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Explain the difference between a FUNCTION, PROCEDURE and PACKAGE.

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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.

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

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You have found corruption in a tablespace that contains static tables that are part of a database that is in NOARCHIVE log mode. How would you restore the tablespace without losing new data in the other tablespaces?

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List out some of the requirements to setup a sql server failover cluster.? : sql server DBA

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Query processing is slow(eg select query)how will u solve that

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