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Capt. Varchar(MAX) and the PageLatch Posse Vol. 17

Posted by Jason on Friday, January 16, 2009 to Humor, Captain Varchar(MAX)
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The Interview Question

Yes, this really happened. He didn’t say “Duh” but he was so confident that he might as well have.

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WOW. That's awesome. Knowledge Fail.

posted @ Friday, January 16, 2009 10:16 AM by Brent Ozar

HA! That's pretty cool. Interviewing DBAs? Fun ain't it.

posted @ Friday, January 16, 2009 10:28 AM by Grant

The fact that this really happened is what makes it funny (in a sad way). I've heard some crazy answers to that questions before. Unfortunately many came from senior DBA candidates. This one is definitely up there with the best of them.

posted @ Friday, January 16, 2009 10:58 AM by Rob Boek

Comments from the following blog entry: http://robboek.com/2009/01/16/sql-server-interview-blunders/

posted @ Friday, January 16, 2009 11:24 AM

Jason, that beats by far anything anyone's ever tried to get past me.

posted @ Friday, January 16, 2009 3:50 PM by Jimmy May

Comments from the following blog entry: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/01/more-sqlserverpedia-syndicated-bloggers/

posted @ Friday, January 30, 2009 7:33 AM

Is it an active/passive table?

posted @ Friday, January 30, 2009 2:43 PM by SuperCoolMoss

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