Oracle DBA (Database Administration) Interview Questions
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What is the relation between database and instance?

409

What is the difference between sga and pga?

422

What do you mean by oracle database?

380

What are the important tasks of common oracle dba?

381

What is the difference between a database and instance? What is the relation between them?

403

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

397

What is the difference between cold backup and hot backup?

424

What are the various ingredients of sga?

383

What do you understand by the oracle?

371

Explain the term 'oracle grid architecture'?

392

What are the different types of backup available in the oracle?

419

What are the main benefits of using spfile over pfile?

420

What do you understand by the term 'normalization'? Explain the various modes of normalization?

392

What are the different responsibilities of a dba?

434

Discuss row chaining, how does it happen? How can you reduce it? How do you correct it?

388


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What is the difference between raid 5 and raid 10? Which is better for oracle?

424


What skills should a dba have?

388


What is dba in sound level?

383


How many control files should you have?

418


What is oracle archived redo log?

403


How can you determine if an index needs to be dropped and rebuilt?

404


You look at the dba_rollback_segs view and see that you have a large number of wraps is this a problem?

420


How can you find dead processes?

383


When should you increase copy latches? What parameters control copy latches?

405


What do you understand by a control file?

369


Where would you look to find out if a redo log was corrupted assuming you are using oracle mirrored redo logs?

369


Explain the process you follow to start looking into performance issue at database level(if the application is running very slow, at what points do you need to go about the database inorder to improve the performance?)

530


A user is getting an ora-00942 error yet you know you have granted them permission on the table, what else should you check?

391


How can you determine the number of sqlnet users logged in to the unix system?

399


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

447