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Server Administrator Interview Questions
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First question: Tell me about page latching.
The most difficult question was about my weaknesses. However, I have learned how to handle that particular question. Other difficult questions were technical in nature. For example, questions about web servers and dot net applications.
Company was facing an immediate need and was unclear how to proceed. So a few questions were related to how I would resolve said issue.
Normal SQL Server questions
How would you identify a long running query? How would would find out the execution plan of that query? If you have a SPID how could you see what query that spid was executing? Name the types of waits in SQL-Server? What do they mean? Is there another way besides SQL Server Profiler, Extended Events and Performance Monitor to see waits, I/O, etc? What is the difference between an Implicit and Explicit query in SQL? With a large database using Blobs what sort of configuration changes do you have to make? How do you setup indexing specifically? What steps do you take to tune SQL queries? How would you go about rewriting a poorly performing query? How could you tell where indexes were missing? Why would you choose SQL-Server over Oracle?
Tel me how will you bring up/fix the server with out rebooting. What are the other ways you check that the server is down apart from Ping the server and Remote the server
management point
No actual questions other than general discussion and why I left my previous employer.
simple questions more less technical questions
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