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If I asked you to learn how to make a query faster, what would you do?
Does the candidate look like a person that shows some ambition? Do they read any web sites with regularity? Have they ever opened a user manual, or the BOL? Who do they consider to be an expert? Do they have their own library of books, or their own toolbox of scripts? How do they typically attack a query with regards to performance tuning?
If you need a DBA that can help troubleshoot poorly performing code, and to do so quickly, then you want to make sure they aren’t the type to panic when the pressure is on. In short, find out how would they start to look for answers. Which also happens to be a great segue into the final question…
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