What is a DBA?

2. What DBA activities did you to do today?

3. What are the different modes of mounting a Database with the Parallel Server?
4. What are the advantages of operating a database in ARCHIVELOG mode over operating it in NO ARCHIVELOG
mode?
5. Do you consider yourself a development DBA or a production DBA and why?
6. What are the Large object types supported by Oracle?
7. Difference between a where clause and a having claus
8. Shall we create procedures to fetch more than one record?
9. Do View contain Data?
10. What are the Referential actions supported by FOREIGN KEY integrity constraint?
11. What are the type of Synonyms?
12. Where would you look for errors from the database engine?
13. Compare and contrast TRUNCATE and DELETE for a table.
14. Give the reasoning behind using an index.
15. Give the two types of tables involved in producing a star schema and the type of data they hold.
16. What type of index should you use on a fact table?
17. What is a Segment?
18. A table is classified as a parent table and you want to drop and