Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprises Interview Questions Q1: Please let me know system db names, what is the purpose

of sybsystemdb? Q2: Suppose our tempdb is filling up or filled up, you cant recycle the db server, then what would be your steps? Q3: Business Team(AD) is reporting the query slow performance, how will you investigate, pls consider all case. (Hint: memory, stats, indexes,reorg,locks etc) Q4: Suppose our temdb is not recovered ,can we create new database? Q5: We have configured 7 dataserver engines for our PROD server(we have sufficient cpus), still we are facing the performance hit? Possible root cause? Q6: Suppose we are doing the ASe 15 upgrade by dump & load , and in 12.5 server having 2000 logins. Since syslogins having different table structure in both enviorment, we cant use bcp, how will we move these logins from 12.5 to 15.0? Q7: Which feature of ASE15.o most impressed you and why? Q8: What is your orgs backup policy, what is dump tran with standby_access? Q9: What is log suicide ? Q10: When we require log suicide of a DB? Q11: What is the bypass recovery, when we require the bypass recovery? Q12: What is the difference between shutdown and shutdown with no_wait, besides the immediate shutdown difference. Q13: Suppose In our one database huge trans are going on, we issued the shutdown with no_wait . Will it hit the server restart and how? Q14: Whats the named data cache, what is buffer pooling and how the cache hit effects the system performance ? Q15: We are getting stack traces for one of our databases? How will you investigate? Q16: Is object level recovery possible in ASE? Q17: What is the difference between sysstats and systabstats table? Q18: What is histogram and what its default step value? Q19: Why we requires non default step value in histogram ?

Q20: Can we run the update stat on one table one two step(halt table in first time and after that rest half of table)?