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Oracle DBA interview [message #165089]

Tue, 28 March 2006 05:22

dbasif
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Hi All,

i had a dba technical round,i am sending few question which i have a doubt, can anybody explain me.

* user complains about db is slow, how will you proceed ?
(provided not to use any of the utility or statspack)
* how to find and recover the block corruption.
* what are semaphores and how it is important in oracle
* how to find out which user has generated a particular trace
file ?

Regards
Mohammad Asif
MindTree Consulting

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165103 is a reply to message #165089]

Tue, 28 March 2006 06:12

Mahesh Rajendran
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What is your doubt?

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165120 is a reply to message #165089]

Tue, 28 March 2006 06:47

kmsalih
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Hi

There are so many methods for your first issue.

I will explain one.

Write a shell script to know the most cpu consuming users.( Use ps command)
If users are complaining that the db is slow run that.

From the result generated by the shell script you will get the spid of the process taking more cpu.

Query the database and find which is the user.

According to the importance of that session keep or kill that session.

Regards
SALIH KM

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165231 is a reply to message #165089]

Wed, 29 March 2006 00:29

gajini
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Can anyone answer the following the DBA interview questions

* how to find and recover the block corruption.
* how to find out which user has generated a particular trace
file ?

Thanks,
Malru

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165239 is a reply to message #165120]

Wed, 29 March 2006 00:49

dbasif
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Thanx Salih for ur reply.
but i also have given the same answer like, to find out from dictionary view which user is blocking the current session, and then kill that if that is not much important.

but the interviewer din't satisfied, he wanted some other solution, any clue

Regards
Asif

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165242 is a reply to message #165231]

Wed, 29 March 2006 00:56

kmsalih
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Hi ,

Finding the Block Corruption

Look the alert log file

Finding the owner of the trace file generated

Trace file will contain a number.
That is server process id (spid).

Query

Select p.spid, s.username from v_$sesssion where p.addr=s.paddr and background is null;

It will show the spid of all sessions except the sessions used by bgprocess.

Rgds
SALIH KM Cool

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165248 is a reply to message #165239]

Wed, 29 March 2006 01:06

kmsalih
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Hi Asif,

There are other ways like

1. Monitor V$session_longops
2. Monitor V$sql (executions,) and make the execution path of those sql.

Also it depends upon situation.

Rgds
SALIH KM Cool

[Updated on: Wed, 29 March 2006 01:07]

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165251 is a reply to message #165242]

Wed, 29 March 2006 01:12

dbasif
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Thanx Salih,

i have cheked, this works :

Select p.spid, s.username from v$session s,v$process p where p.addr=s.paddr

Regards
Asif

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165610 is a reply to message #165251]

Fri, 31 March 2006 01:19

madhusunkara
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for block corruption detection you can use any of the folowing utilities
1.dbverify
2.export
3.RMAN
4.alert log

dbverify can only do offline check

for recovery you have to use RMAN

Thanks
Madhu

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165611 is a reply to message #165610]

Fri, 31 March 2006 01:21

madhusunkara
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useful link talks about block corruption
http://www.quest-pipelines.com/newsletter-v4/0103_C.htm

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #165893 is a reply to message #165089]

Mon, 03 April 2006 04:02

nmacdannald
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* user complains about db is slow, how will you proceed ?
(provided not to use any of the utility or statspack)
check the top 10 user list by cpu on oem?
Take a snapshot,using oem, of a running database and see what is going on. Run the snapshot through oem's sql analyser.

* what are semaphores and how it is important in oracle
I *think* they are the way Oracle keeps track of resources(table rows, indexes, whatever).

Microsoft asks dba's how many gas stations are in your town. The answer is not important, they just want to see how you got your answer. Also, they ask "why is a manhole cover round", with the answer being 'it is the only geometric shape that will not fall in on itself.
But that's just Microsoft. For getting a jump on interview questons try Don Berleson's interview book at www.donberleson.com?
Neil.

[Updated on: Mon, 03 April 2006 04:10]

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Re: Oracle DBA interview [message #166187 is a reply to message #165611]

Wed, 05 April 2006 01:39

dbasif
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Thanks Madhu, this document cleared all my doubts about block corruption.

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