Oracle General Interview Questions
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What is the cache hit ratio, what impact does it have on performance of an Oracle database and what is involved in tuning it?

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Other than making use of the statspack utility, what would you check when you are monitoring or running a health check on an Oracle 8i or 9i database?

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How do you tell what your machine name is and what is its IP address?

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How would you go about verifying the network name that the local_listener is currently using?

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You have 4 instances running on the same UNIX box. How can you determine which shared memory and semaphores are associated with which instance?

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What view(s) do you use to associate a users SQLPLUS session with his o/s process?

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What is the recommended interval at which to run statspack snapshots, and why?

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What spfile/init.ora file parameter exists to force the CBO to make the execution path of a given statement use an index, even if the index scan may appear to be calculated as more costly?

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Assuming today is Monday, how would you use the DBMS_JOB package to schedule the execution of a given procedure owned by SCOTT to start Wednesday at 9AM and to run subsequently every other day at 2AM.

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How would you edit your CRONTAB to schedule the running of /test/test.sh to run every other day at 2PM?

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What do the 9i dbms_standard.sql_txt() and dbms_standard.sql_text() procedures do?

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In which dictionary table or view would you look to determine at which time a snapshot or MVIEW last successfully refreshed?

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How would you best determine why your MVIEW couldnt FAST REFRESH?

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How does propagation differ between Advanced Replication and Snapshot Replication (read-only)?

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Which dictionary view(s) would you first look at to understand or get a high-level idea of a given Advanced Replication environment?

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normally database take to refresh time 2 hours. but client asked iwant to refresh with in 5 min that same database. do you have any option in BO and Oracle? explain me briefly...kavi

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What happens if the imported table already exists?

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Explain about functional dependency and its relation with table design?

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Explain the use of indexes option in exp command.

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What are the advantages of oracle?

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What is varray?

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What is a dead lock in oracle?

607


What will be the syntax to find current date and time in format "yyyy-mm-dd"?

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What is a cursor variable?

590


How do I find my oracle client driver version?

538


Can we call procedure inside function in oracle?

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Explain how are indexes update?

634


How can you use check constraints for self referential integrity?

533


How to run create database statement?

586


How to define a specific record type?

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