October 1, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Hi,Can anyone please give me interview questions for SQL Server 2k and 2k5,I am having interview on this coming Monday?
In phonic interview i was asked more about backups,space management,performance tuning(slow running database and query,blocking/locking,latest running batchs etc etc).
Also i was asked about clustering if you have 5 nodes where one is passive and rest are active and you are planing to add more nodes then what would be the naming convention.
Thanks
Irfan
October 1, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Also i was asked about clustering if you have 5 nodes where one is passive and rest are active and you are planing to add more nodes then what would be the naming convention.
Umm, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Bashful, ... uhh, ... Cranky, Surly, Snarky, and Doc. 😀
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October 2, 2009 at 12:39 am
Also i was asked about clustering if you have 5 nodes where one is passive and rest are active and you are planing to add more nodes then what would be the naming convention.
1 passive and 4 active nodes. What kind of business architecture model it will be and what could be the business requirement behind adopting this way of setting up clusters.
Only way i can think of is to have single instance of sql server on each node. Can anyone give me some another better example?
Also what will happen if 2 active nodes try to fail over at same point in time?
October 2, 2009 at 1:47 am
Only way i can think of is to have single instance of sql server on each node. Can anyone give me some another better example?
Also what will happen if 2 active nodes try to fail over at same point in time?
There's nothing wrong with that implementation... it means you only have to buy one server for hot standby.
The chances of two servers going down at the same time are much less than one going down. If it does happen, then as long as you understand and plan for the degradation in service, it's not a problem.
If a third server went down, you could fail that over to one of the other active nodes, so unless you were in HUGE trouble, you would still only have two instances running on any one server.
October 2, 2009 at 2:19 am
RBarryYoung (10/1/2009)
Also i was asked about clustering if you have 5 nodes where one is passive and rest are active and you are planing to add more nodes then what would be the naming convention.
Umm, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Bashful, ... uhh, ... Cranky, Surly, Snarky, and Doc. 😀
umm, that is eight and what happens if you have more 😛
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October 2, 2009 at 7:15 am
I'm willing to point you at lists of questions, sure, but studying questions & answers is no way to prepare for an interview. You either know the technology to the level that they're asking for, or you don't. Saying "I don't know" is an acceptable answer. Actually, it's the answer I want to hear if you don't actually know. If you give me half an answer or a total BS answer, I'm likely to know because I don't usually ask a question unless I'm reasonably confident I already have the answer.
If you really want to prep for the interview, study the company and it's industry. Go in with questions about their development & deployment processes, on call duties and rotation, industry specific information... Trying to bone up on technology is probably a mistake.
But, I've posted our phone screen questions[/url] on my blog. You can read those if you think it'll help.
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October 2, 2009 at 7:59 am
An interview question about the naming convention for their servers????
My immediate inclination would be to ask if they were joking. If not, my second inclination would be to tell them what a dumb question that is, and, if they were interested, why it's a dumb question. If they seriously think that's a good interview question, there's no way I'm working for them, so letting them know the question is dumb won't cost me anything.
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