What is a database?

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What is a database?

While it may seem silly to ask this question keep one thing in mind: there are no silly interview questions. No matter how ridiculous a question may seem to both the person asking it and the person responding, they will always serve a purpose. In this case you may find the candidate talking about MS Access, or Filemaker, or whatever they have been exposed to previously. Let their response be an indication of their fundamental knowledge of some RDBMS system. See if they can explain the difference between a data and a log file, for example.

Remember, people tend to embellish on resumes. If you have never met the person before, why not ask the most basic question you can, right from the start? The answer may surprise you, but the conversation is likely to reveal the depth of their experience right from the start.

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