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7. How do you control number of Datafiles one can have in an Oracle database?
9. What is a Tablespace?
11. Which default Database roles are created when you create a Database?
18. How many maximum Redo Logfiles one can have in a Database?
25. What is 01555 - Snapshot Too Old error and how do you avoid it?
31. How do you collect statistics for a table, schema and Database?
36. A table is having few rows, should you create indexes on this table?
37. A Column is having many repeated values which type of index you should create
on this column, if you have to?
47. You want users to change their passwords every 2 months. How do you enforce
this?
52. What is the difference between Direct Path and Convention Path loading?
56. What is the difference between Range Partitioning and Hash Partitioning?
58. Can you import objects from Oracle ver. 7.3 to 9i?
59. How do you move tables from one tablespace to another tablespace?
60. How do see how much space is used and free in a tablespace?
Backup and Recovery Interview Questions for Oracle DBA
Some of the Common Backup and Recovery Interview Questions for Oracle
Database Administrator. These questions are common for both Senior Oracle
DBA or Junior DBA. I have compiled these questions based upon the feedback I
got from many candidates who have attended interviews in various MNC's
4. Can you take Online Backups if the the database is running in NOARCHIVELOG
mode?
6. You cannot shutdown the database for even some minutes, then in which mode you
should run
the database?
7. Where should you place Archive logfiles, in the same disk where DB is or another
disk?
10. Should you take the backup of Logfiles if the database is running in
ARCHIVELOG mode?
20. Can you use Backupsets created by RMAN with any other utility?
21. Where RMAN keeps information of backups if you are using RMAN without
Catalog?
22. You have taken a manual backup of a datafile using o/s. How RMAN will know
about it?
23. You want to retain only last 3 backups of datafiles. How do you go for it in
RMAN?
26. How do you recover from the loss of datafile if the DB is running in
NOARCHIVELOG mode?
27. You loss one datafile and it does not contain important objects. The important
objects are there in other datafiles which are intact. How do you proceed in this
situation?
28. You lost some datafiles and you don't have any full backup and the database was
running in NOARCHIVELOG mode. What you can do now?
29. How do you recover from the loss of datafile if the DB is running in
ARCHIVELOG mode?
30. You loss one datafile and DB is running in ARCHIVELOG mode. You have full
database backup of 1 week old and backup of only this datafile which is just 1 day
old. From which backup should you restore this file?
32. The current logfile gets damaged. What you can do now?
34. What is Cancel Based, Time based and Change Based Recovery?
35. Some user has accidentally dropped one table and you realize this after two days.
Can you recover this table if the DB is running in ARCHIVELOG mode?
36. Do you have to restore Datafiles manually from backups if you are doing recovery
using RMAN?
37. A database is running in ARCHIVELOG mode since last one month. A datafile is
added to the database last week. Many objects are created in this datafile. After one
week this datafile gets damaged before you can take any backup. Now can you
recover this datafile when you don't have any backups?
38. How do you recover from the loss of a controlfile if you have backup of
controlfile?
39. Only some blocks are damaged in a datafile. Can you just recover these blocks if
you are using RMAN?
40. Some datafiles were there on a secondary disk and that disk has become damaged
and it will take some days to get a new disk. How will you recover from this
situation?
41. Have you faced any emergency situation. Tell us how you resolved it?
42. At one time you lost parameter file accidentally and you don't have any backup.
How you will recreate a new parameter file with the parameters set to previous
values.
Unix related Oracle DBA Interview Questions
In many Oracle DBA interviews many questions are asked relating to Unix.
Here I have collected some common Interviews questions asked to a DBA
relating to Unix environment. These questions are mostly asked for senior Oracle
DBA positions. I have compiled these questions based upon the feedback I got
from many candidates who have attended interviews in various MNC'
3. You have written a script to take backups. How do you make it run automatically
every week?
6. How do you see how much hard disk space is free in Linux?
7. What is SAR?
8. What is SHMMAX?
11. How do you see how many memory segments are acquired by Oracle Instances?
12. How do you see which segment belongs to which database instances?
14. How do you set Kernel Parameters in Red Hat Linux, AIX and Solaris?
16. What is the difference between Soft Link and Hard Link?
18. How do you see how many processes are running in Unix?