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      Database Administrator Interview

      16 Feb 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Two Sigma (New York, NY) in Feb 2011

      Interview

      I have more than 5yrs of experience and IVY League degrees. After a 10 minute phone screening the recruiter emailed me a test. I wrote and tested my code before sending it for evaluation. Overall, these guys are very unprofessional. Jerks !!!

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Write an efficient stored procedure to allocate unique integer ids.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Write the sql for deleting duplicate rows from a table without using temporary space.
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      You have 10 tables that are truncated at the end of every day. They all grow simultaneously throughout the day. How do you avoid fragmentation problems?
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      Assume a table, task, with the following columns: § task_id (int, Not NULL) § task_description (text, Not NULL) § parent_task_id (int, NULL) Write a stored procedure and program (in any language of your choosing) to produce a text based hierarchical tree of the tasks rooted at a given task, using tabs to show the hierarchy. For example, if these rows exist in the task table: task_idtask_descriptionparent_task_id 1Eat LunchNULL 2Choose restaurant1 3Order food1 4Call restaurant3 5Have staff meetingNULL 6Send agenda5 And your program in invoked as follows: tasktree –t 1 It will produce this output: Eat Lunch Choose restaurant Order food Call restaurant
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      Provide a code sample from a program you wrote to automate a database related task.
      1 Answer
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