Stupid questoins were asked. Architectural differences were asked.
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How does MySQL replication work? What tuning variables affect MySQL? How do you determine why a SQL query is taking a long time to run? How do you skip major version upgrades with as little downtime as possible? What status variables tell you if the buffer pool is thrashing?
Was quizzed mostly on my RDBMS concepts and scripting knowledge.
how will you implement transaction in SSIS
Tell me your experiences, the tech stack you use, do you data model. Take home - (1) write a SQL statement to put a score/metric together (2) write a Python script that reads a text file, counts the words, and gives back a text file with the word counts. Added complexity - spread the processing over 10 nodes.
Current work-related questions, nothing too fancy.
Why did you apply for this position?
Do you know what is time series data and have you had experience with it?
Add a functionality to a popular key-value store
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