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Life is about taking chances, risks and always moving forward

No one can predict where a person will be in the near or distant future. For life is about taking chances, risks and always moving forward. The plan we may have now could change the next day or  in the next few months or may be just a bad one after all. Don't get fooled, people entering or exiting other people's lives have a huge impact. Especially in a working environment. Asking someone about the next five years, to me, screams loudly like the five year communist idealistic phoney perspective for the next financial political congress. Funny right? How things resonate in other people's minds, huh?

This so important topic should be discussed more widely, All everyone needs to do is to adjust to the conditions of their own expectations and lived experiences and to envision a life/career destination. Taking and assuming all the necessary steps through the process is the key to all achievements. Being true to their own personal values and agenda will set them out of the crowd. 

A high culture atmosphere, perfect planning, positive climate. During employment, assessors looked how we communicate with each other and do we care of all in the hall during breaks. No typical questions, everything orientated to customer service and personality. Attitude is maybe not everything, but % really is. The rest is personality.

Job interview questions - Prepare Yourself

Talent and integrity is what needed in people you hire. Steve jobs said it best, we don't want to hire smart people to tell them what to do,we want smart people to tell us what to do? They’re too ambiguous and open ended, their answers won’t reveal too much about the candidates as they are the kind of questions in which a candidate can prepare and create answers that you’d want to hear.

Questions should be:

1. What have you done in the last 5 years?
2. What did you make?
3. Who were the parties involved? 
4. What was the product?
5. How long did it take?
6. How did you measure the success of the project or product?
7. Did you fail and what did you learn?
8. Would you do it all over again?

All standard interview questions should be replaced. Everyone can buy a sexy resume and can pay a career coach to ace the interview. Anyone can pay to find info and prepare for standard interview questions but you cant pay to answer questions that are designed to reveal ones talent, integrity, intelligence, dedication commitment and self worth.

The worst part is that we need to prepare the answers ahead to beat people that look up the answers on the internet to show a quality that they do not have. But at the end of the day, if we try to escape them, it will somehow imply that we "do not care" and came "unprepared" for the interview, regardless how great we are on our jobs. We need to prove with ineffective questions how good we are in words not in actions.

The Most Annoying Interview Questions

If we want to hire smart people, we should stop asking stupid questions. They ask the questions typically because officially once you walk in the door then they have decided if they like you or not or if they wish to pursue your candidate status. 

In case you have not noticed, good people hate these following questions in their interview scanning process- 

1. Why are you leaving your current company?

2. Where do you see yourself in 5 years ?

3. Why should we hire you ?

4. What are your weaknesses ?

People leave their employer due to poor management and lack of involvement in the growth of the employees. How many people leave in 1 year time because of this? People are mislead with broken promises 50% of the time. Take your applicant and turn the tables. Bring in 3 employees and CEO,VP higher management. Let the applicant do the  interview. If the applicant is well educated will know to run it like a strategic meeting.

A company will hopefully realise there is a problem and correct it. Turn around of employees will slow down, and they will be doing interviews and hiring due to growth. I mean, a candidate's smartness and his hard working nature is measured by such stupid questions on his first visit to the company, how would he happily join that company or join with full satisfaction and then later on do his job and how could he enjoy the job he is doing?

Even, I don't like these kind of questions. 

Q1. There are 101 reasons why we leave a company. And the common reason for everyone is for better pay check. I am sure what recruiters will make out of this question. Also, nobody will say a genuine reason. 

Q2. It all depends of the organization structure and the open positions in a company if you would like to grow and many other factors. 

Q3. Why did you open a position to recruit people or fill a position. That is a reason to hire me

Q4. Why do you want to know the weakness. Somebody's weakness maybe someone's strength. N I am 100 % sure no one will tell you their genuine weakness even if they have one.

Ask relevant questions related to the open position and questions which get's most out of the candidate whom you are interviewing. Like his attitude, how best he can get along with the colleagues, His Ideas, His Future Goals.

Nowadays people round very quickly and companies are also not too keen in retaining talents like they used too. Also people used to stay put for a long term benefit packages which has diapered , so the question is totally irrelevant !! 

It's not irrelevant if you're a company deciding whether or not to invest thousands of dollars and who knows how much time training someone. You'd be surprised by how many people excitedly tell you about the business that they're less than a year away from launching or that they plan on moving to Korea to teach English.  You wouldn't be a good steward of your organization's resources if you didn't at least attempt to inquire about a candidate's short term plans.

Trendiness needs a reality check.  Anyway, good to see some thought is being centred on interview questions and their relevance. How unjust it is for your future, your career, your ambitions, your dreams and aspirations and chance to success depend one that person who possibly woke up on the wrong side or feels threatened or is not even best qualified to assess your candidacy.

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SQL - Basic Interview Questions

What is Stored Procedure?

Stored procedures are nothing but a stored procedure is a named group of SQL statements that have been previously created and stored in the server database. Stored procedures accept input parameters so that a single procedure can be used over the network by several clients using different input data. And when the procedure is modified, all clients automatically get the new version. Stored procedures reduce network traffic and improve performance. Stored procedures can be used to help ensure the integrity of the database.

e.g.  sp_helpdb, sp_renamedb, sp_depends etc.

What is Trigger?

A trigger is a SQL procedure that initiates an action when an event (INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE) occurs. Triggers are stored in and managed by the DBMS. Triggers are used to maintain the referential integrity of data by changing the data in a systematic fashion. A trigger cannot be called or executed; DBMS automatically fires the trigger as a result of a data modification to the associated table. Triggers can be viewed as similar to stored procedures in that both consist of procedural logic that is stored at the database level. Stored procedures, however, are not event-drive and are not attached to a specific table as triggers are. Stored procedures are explicitly executed by invoking a CALL to the procedure while triggers are implicitly executed. In addition, triggers can also execute stored procedures.

Nested Trigger: A trigger can also contain INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE logic within itself, so when the trigger is fired because of data modification it can also cause another data modification, thereby firing another trigger. A trigger that contains data modification logic within itself is called a nested trigger.

What is View?

A simple view can be thought of as a subset of a table. It can be used for retrieving data, as well as updating or deleting rows. Rows updated or deleted in the view are updated or deleted in the table the view was created with. It should also be noted that as data in the original table changes, so does data in the view, as views are the way to look at part of the original table. The results of using a view are not permanently stored in the database. The data accessed through a view is actually constructed using standard T-SQL select command and can come from one to many different base tables or even other views.

What is Index?

An index is a physical structure containing pointers to the data. Indices are created in an existing table to locate rows more quickly and efficiently. It is possible to create an index on one or more columns of a table, and each index is given a name. The users cannot see the indexes; they are just used to speed up queries. Effective indexes are one of the best ways to improve performance in a database application. A table scan happens when there is no index available to help a query. In a table scan SQL Server examines every row in the table to satisfy the query results. Table scans are sometimes unavoidable, but on large tables, scans have a terrific impact on performance.

What is a Linked Server?

Linked Servers is a concept in SQL Server by which we can add other SQL Server to a Group and query both the SQL Server dbs using T-SQL Statements. With a linked server, you can create very clean, easy to follow, SQL statements that allow remote data to be retrieved, joined and combined with local data. Stored Procedure sp_addlinkedserver, sp_addlinkedsrvlogin will be used add new Linked Server.

What is Cursor?

Cursor is a database object used by applications to manipulate data in a set on a row-by-row basis, instead of the typical SQL commands that operate on all the rows in the set at one time. In order to work with a cursor we need to perform some steps in the following order:

Declare cursor

Open cursor

Fetch row from the cursor

Process fetched row

Close cursor

Deallocate cursor