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I don't see why that is a bad question. A reasonable answer is selecting from a table. Of course it depends on many factors. I often ask questions like this jus
by clubhi 13y ago
I don't see why that is a bad question. A reasonable answer is selecting from a table. Of course it depends on many factors. I often ask questions like this just to get the candidate to tell me why there is not an absolute answer.
- chris_wot 13y agoUnless, of course, the view is a materialized view.
- jfb 13y agoIf a candidate can talk intelligently about materialized views, I think we're past the "explain HAVING" stage of the interview.
- yread 13y agoYeah that's the thing. I was talking about computed columns in tables, materialized (or indexed) views, about measuring stuff by experiment and about measuring stuff that actually matters but the interviewer seemed like he wanted to hear a simple answer