Conducting the Oracle Job Interview: IT Manager Guide for Oracle Job Interviews with Oracle Interview Questions (IT Job Interview series) [Paperback]

Mike Ault (Author), Donald Burleson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2003 | Series: IT Job Interview series

IT managers will be able to quickly assess the technical ability of any Oracle job candidate using these Oracle job interview questions that are not available to the general public. The personality and background characteristics of successful Oracle professionals are listed, and tips for identifying candidates with the right demeanor are presented. Also provided are methods for evaluating academic and work history and oral interview questions for Oracle database administrators, developers, and Oracle analysts. Techniques for quickly scanning resumes for pertinent information are also given.

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About the Author

Mike Ault is a senior technical management consultant with TUSC who holds five Oracle master certificates and is the author of 14 Oracle related books. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Donald K. Burleson is the author of 16 Oracle database books and is the editor in chief of Oracle Internals. He is an Oracle consultant with extensive experience designing and implementing Oracle8 databases, including systems architecture, project management, data warehouse design, implementation and tuning, tuning massively parallel Oracle databases, Oracle SQL tuning, using Oracle with SAP, and tuning very large Oracle databases. He lives in Kittrell, North Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Rampant Techpress; 1 edition (August 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972751319
• ISBN-13: 978-0972751315
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,458,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Donald K. Burleson is one of the world's most widely published Database experts with more than 20 years of full-time DBA experience.

He specializes in creating database architectures for very large online databases and he has worked with some of the world's most powerful and complex systems.

A former Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Burleson has written 30 books, published more than 100 articles in National Magazines, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Rampant TechPress.

Don is a popular lecturer and teacher and is a frequent speaker at Oracle Openworld and other international database conferences.

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete waste of money, August 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Conducting the Oracle Job Interview: IT Manager Guide for Oracle Job Interviews with Oracle Interview Questions (IT Job Interview series) (Paperback)

This book contains 130 pages and if the font size were normal it would have been around 30 pages. I read this book in less than 15 Mins and I have not learned anything new.
The book has 5 chapters which basically can be classified in three parts
Part 1
Explains the Oracle Certification in which can be viewed on the Oracle Web site.
Part 2
Decorum - How you present yourself at an interview
Part 3
Basic questions on Oracle
Eg - what is the password for Scott user and System?
- Describe the difference between a procedure and a function
- How do you select the date from sqlplus?

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Stern Tonic, June 1, 2005

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This review is from: Conducting the Oracle Job Interview: IT Manager Guide for Oracle Job Interviews with Oracle Interview Questions (IT Job Interview series) (Paperback)

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These are not guys prone to asking hypotheticals, or encouraging thought experiments. They wear white shirts. They have answers. You'd better know these answers, and only these, because they've been written down in this little book.

No subtle distinctions, variations of experience, or questions of cognitive talent will clutter their decision processes at hiring time. These are not distractible people.

They cover a lot of ground here. Who makes a great Oracle person? Electrical Engineers are perfect candidates -- but watch out for Education majors (they're suspect). (FYI, this reviewer is an E.E. -- glad to know I'm okay.) What personality type is best? Try to get one with an "'Anal' personality,"

"after Sigmund Freud's theory of anal-retentive personalities" (page 34).

I bet these guys are great fun. Pleasant to work with (assuming you've memorized the entire content of your site's init.ora, and can recite it verbatim).

I must heartily disagree with one of the critics of this book. It is not wide and shallow. Rather it is narrow and subterranean. It expects encyclopedic knowledge of Oracle trivia -- the minor and/or once-in-a-career kind of stuff.

Most answers it asks for are the kind slovenly architects and developers refer to in the documentation, when, if ever, they are pertinent, or whenever they've been forgotten in the rush of ten dozen other tasks, or after the certification test is done with. You'll only be getting cream with this book, the kind of professionals who read and reread from Rampant's Oracle In-Focus series, especially to the kids before bed each and every night.

Heaven help you.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of paper, May 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Conducting the Oracle Job Interview: IT Manager Guide for Oracle Job Interviews with Oracle Interview Questions (IT Job Interview series) (Paperback)

A long time ago I purchased a book by Mike Ault and inside there were the same questions he publised in this book - the problem is that a good portions of these questions are completely obsolete by now (like SQLnet v2 or utlbstat/ustat questions) while some answers are wrong (like myths about high hit ratios)!
This book should never be published (like almost all the rest of 'Rampant' books). Save your money and get Oracle Interview Questions from the net as these found in this book will not be asked on Oracle job iterviews.