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My strength as a DBA, the Latest project I had worked, Most challenging tasks I had performed What factors do you consider when deciding on Oracle block size? What does the log file sync wait even indicate? What do you know about DBaaS?
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Senior DBA

Interviewed at Beyontec

3.2★
Jan 11, 2019

My strength as a DBA, the Latest project I had worked, Most challenging tasks I had performed What factors do you consider when deciding on Oracle block size? What does the log file sync wait even indicate? What do you know about DBaaS?

Technical Questions: 1. Difference between the various types of Waits 2. Difference from estimated and actual query plans 3. What should be your suggestion to create a workflow for the development process including the DBAs?
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Senior Database Administrator

Interviewed at Britannica Knowledge Systems

3.7★
Sep 24, 2020

Technical Questions: 1. Difference between the various types of Waits 2. Difference from estimated and actual query plans 3. What should be your suggestion to create a workflow for the development process including the DBAs?

1) Are you willing to sit in a meeting to help find out why code is running fast? 2) If a VM went down, are you willing to help solve it with sysadmins? 3) Are you willing to work with Microsoft products not related to SQL Server?
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Senior SQL Database Administrator

Interviewed at SM Energy

3.5★
Sep 16, 2015

1) Are you willing to sit in a meeting to help find out why code is running fast? 2) If a VM went down, are you willing to help solve it with sysadmins? 3) Are you willing to work with Microsoft products not related to SQL Server?

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