Sybase Interview Ques

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 org’s 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)?

Interview Questions on User Management & Permissions

1. What is sybase security model for any user/login?

2. What is the diffrence between syslogins and sysusers?

3. How can we add the login in ase? What are the required parameter of sp_addlogin?

4. What are aliases?

5. Whats the diff between role and group and which one is better?

6. How can we sync the logins from prod to uat server, how many tables we need take care for the login sync?

7. Whats suid mismatch?

8. Why do we require aliases?

9. Whts the importance of sysrole table in each database?

10. Explain syslogins syssrvroles, sysloginroles and sysroles and whts the linkup among all?

11. What is proxy authorization?

12. During the refresh from PROD -> UAT env,tables which we require to take care?

13. Explain about sysprotect tabel and sp_helprotect sp?

14. Can we change the password of other login, if yes, how?

15. What is the role required for user management?

16. diffrence b/w 12.5 syslogins and 15.5 syslogins?

17. What is guest user in database and why we require guest user?

18. What is the keycustodian_role in ASE 15.5?

19. How can we include the passwordpolicy? explain sp_passwordpolicy?

20. Can we include password history feature? From which version it is avilable and how can we do that?

21. Can we include one sql proc which exceute during login and how can we do that?

New Ques on 21st Feb 2011

1. How can we get the compression level information from the dump files?

2. What is the difference between update and exclusive locks?

3. What is isolation level in ASE? And default value of isolation level.?

4. How can we avoid the deadlock in the database?

5. Is there any way to print the deadlock information in the errorlog?

6. Give the two benefits for creating the database using for load option?

7.What are new features of the Sybase 15? And let me know which you are using in your day to day operations?

8. What is the joining order in ASE ( suppose we have 4-5 tables with different  size)?

9. What difference between sysmon and MDA table ?

10 . Can we take the output of sybmon in a table?

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Replication Server:

Q1:  How can we know, the current ASE and Replication Server Setup is  warm standby setup or not?

Q2: What is the function of SQM and SQT?

Q3: What is the 1TP & 2TP?

Q4: In how many ways we can know the tran details which is causing the thread down?

Q5 : Pls explain the functionality of rep server starting from PDB logs to RDB

Q6: What is the diff between DSI and DSI EXEC thread?

Q7: Can we dump the queues?

Q8: Suppose our queues are filling up, in next 2 hrs 100% would be fill, how will you investigate and steps for troubleshooting?

Q9: How can we know RSSD server name from replication Server?

Q10: What is the importance of materialize & de-materialize queue?

Q11: What is DIST thread of Replication server?

Q12: What is the difference between connection and route?

Q13: What is the purpose of ID server in replication setup?

Q14: What is switch active ?

New Questions:

What is the diffrence between sp_setreplicate and sp_setreptable?

What is the diffrence between route and connections?

How can we check the current replication setup whether it is WS , table level or db level?

What would be  the impact of long running tran running in PDB in whole replication setup?

suppose there is temp table in sp and we want to replicate it?

What is the importance of rs_locator table in replication server?

What is dbcc settruc ltm, valid/ignore? When we use this dbcc command?

What is diffrence between rs_zeroltm and dbcc settrucn ltm,valid?

What are the diffrent users in common replication setup?

What is rs_subcmp?

New Question on 21st Feb

1. What are the routes?

2. How routes can enhance the performance?

3. What is function string?

4. Replication queues are filling up, Where we need to look into for root cause?

5. If DSI is down , how can we make it up? Whats rs_exception?

6. In an table level replication setup, we need to alter a coloum, what would be the step for the same?

7. Suppose there is size mismatch between table data and replication def between cols? What will happen?

8. How can we refresh a database in the replication enviorment?

9. What factor affecting the replication agent performance in primary database?

10. How can we do the master database replication? Is it possible? What information we can replicate?

New Questions on 11th march 2011
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What is Identity Colum?
What is the advantage and disadvantage of Identity coloums?
From performnace point of view ,which is better if exists or if not exists?
How can we avoid fragmentation in table?
There is update statement on one APL and one DOL table. Which one would be fatser?Consider the cases: where clause on index cluster index coloum , other case not using any index.
Why the reorg is faster on DOL table as compare cluster index rebuild on APL?
Wht cluster index with sorted_data on APL is faster than reorg rebuild in DOL?
What is Sybase recommendation for tempdb size, suppose we have 300GB , 150GB dbs are inserver, wht would be the sybase recommendation for sizing of tempdb?
Whats the difference between dsysnc and direct io?
Suppose we are not concerning about the recovery of the database, which would be better for performance dsync(on/off) or direct io and why?
Whats the asynchronus prefetch ? How is it helping in performance enhance?
We having a 4k page size server, what can be possible pool size in the server?
As Sybase recommends 4K size pool for log usage in 2k page size server , please let me know the pool recommendtaion for 4K pagesize server?
How can we reduce the spinlock without partioning the data cache?
Can we have the spinlock contention with single engine?
In sysmon report what are the five segment you will be looking for performance?
Whta is meta data cache?
Whta is the archive database?
How can we enable the acrhive database for compresssed backup?
Hows the object level recovery is possible in ASE?
How can we find the culprit spid which has filled up th etempdb database?
How can we find the culprit spid which is badly used the log segment of tempdb?
Whats partioning? How partioning helping in increaeing the performance?
Suppose a table is partioned based on a coloum, how dataserver will be handle the insert on the table?
Apart from the query plans, wht else resides in proc cache?
What is new config param “optimization goal”? Whats the parameter we need to provide it?
User is experiancing very slow performace, what can be the reason for this slowness?
What is engine affinity and how can set the engine affinity?
If there are 3 cpus in the box, how many engine we can configure ?
Suppose dataserver is running very slow and sp_monitor is showing 100% cpu usages, what can be possible issue? Where will you look at?
What is the error classes in replication server?
What is the diffrence between Warm standby and table level replication?
Can you please let me know five case when the thread goes down in replication?
What are triggers? What are type of triggers and how many triggers can we configure on a table?
What are diffrecnt locking scheme in ASE and what are the latches?
How can we dump a replication queue?

New questions @ Dec 2011
How can we configure the dbcc database?

How can you configure sybsecurity?

Have you ever worked on terabyte size of  database? How are you taking backup for the same?

Whats the diff between MSA and WS?  Can we consider MSA as a Ws?

You are not able to execute any command in ASE as tempdb is full and you cant create user defined tempdb on the fly , how will you investigate ?

What are the new features fo Sybase ASE 15?

What are the different options avilable with reorg ?

Why we require reorg ?

Suppose if every thing is fine in REplication enviorment  and data is not replicating , how will you troubleshoot the same?

What is gen id in rep server?

How can you check the latency in the replication enviorment?

Whats is HA in Sybase? How can we monitor the HA status?