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Don Granaman[SMTP:granaman_at_cox.net] wrote:
> >"What do you hate/find-frustrating about Oracle?" (Let me count the
> ways...
> ><process terminated with ORA-22053>) That could easily be the most
> >revealing interview question ever conceived! I love it!!!
>
It works wonderfully for me. I've seen a few faces go completely blank ...
and a few go cherry-red as they start frothing at the mouth mumbling
"ORA-00600 ... ORA-01555 ...". It's almost like free therapy for them :-)
> >I'm amazed at the number of times someone that is supposedly qualified
> can't
> >answer a very simple, but unexpected, practical question. I used to
> always
> >start out with a few "indicator" questions to determine strengths,
> >weaknesses and which way to go. One such was "If you find a file named
> >'afiedt.buf', how was it probably created?" That particular question
> caught
> >two very "confident" applicants without the foggiest clue a few years
> ago.
> >
> >One was the "Oracle Wizard" at his current company. (Seriously. It was
> the
> >official job title on his business card! ... even though he had been out
> of
> >college less than a year.)
> >
> >The other was an extremely smug 7 & 8 OCP DBBS who claimed many years of
> >experience and opened our conversation, immediately after the handshake
> and
> >introductions, with "I'm one of the best Oracle DBAs around - if not THE
> >best.". When I asked this question after a few minutes of pleasant
> >generalities, his smirk disappeared, his jaw dropped and he just sat
> there
> >staring at me with the best "deer in the headlights" look I've ever seen.
> >[It must not have been in the Self Test Software Practice Exams or the
> Exam
> >Cram books.]
>
I laughed a lot at that ... not least because I'd been an Oracle DBA for
three or four years before someone mentioned edit in SQL*Plus, and I said
... "Edit?! You mean this piece-of-[expletive] has an edit command!? WHY
DIDN'T YOU TELL ME!!!!!?????". Needless to say I then went and read the
manual.
> >BTW: Grant: Can I buy that .sig from you?
>
I'll do you a trade :-)
Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)
If swallowed seek medical advice
(Apologies for the excess signature)
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