Oracle DBA (Database Administration) Interview Questions
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How can you determine if an index needs to be dropped and rebuilt?

413

A developer is trying to create a view and the database won’t let him. He has the "developer" role which has the "create view" system privilege and select grants on the tables he is using, what is the problem?

499

You look at your fragmentation report and see that smon has not coalesced any of you tablespaces, even though you know several have large chunks of contiguous free extents. What is the problem?

452

If you have an example table, what is the best way to get sizing data for the production table implementation?

399

What file will give you oracle instance status information? Where is it located?

413

A tablespace has a table with 30 extents in it. Is this bad? Why or why not.

406

How would you find total size of database in os level?

399

What is ora-1555 snapshot too old error? Explain in detail?

496

What is an artificial (derived) primary key?

422

What is different type of rman backup?

446

You see multiple fragments in the system tablespace, what should you check first?

422

Users get the following error: ora-00055 maximum number of dml locks exceeded? What is the problem and how do you fix it?

390

Explain dual table. Is any data internally stored in dual table. Lot of users is accessing select sysdate from dual and they getting some millisecond differences. If we execute select sysdate from emp; what error will we get. Why?

425

How do you set up your tablespace on installation level: low?

405

If you see the value for reloads is high in the estat library cache report is this a matter for concern?

453


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Which is the best option used to move database from one server to another serve on same network and why?

372


Explain dual table. Is any data internally stored in dual table. Lot of users is accessing select sysdate from dual and they getting some millisecond differences. If we execute select sysdate from emp; what error will we get. Why?

425


Why do we need a database?

419


What is the difference between truncate and delete? Why is one faster? Can we rollback both? How would a full table scan behave after?

393


What does database administrator do?

392


What are the types of schemas?

397


If you had a tablespace, test_tablespace, which consists of three files:test01.dbf, test02.dbf, and test03.dbf, and someone accidentally used the unix command"rm" to delete the file test02.dbf, what else would you need in order to recover all the data thatwas present in test_tablespace at the time that test02.dbf was deleted?

412


What exactly does a dba do?

416


What is oracle dba role?

410


What are the possible ways to gain information regarding the control file?

409


What are functions of dba?

409


The system has a program that always includes the word nocomp in its name, how can you determine the number of processes that are using this program?

405


What does dba stand for in technology?

390


What is the use of the drop option in the alter table command?

433


What skills does a dba need?

413