MySQL Database Support Engineer

Worldwide/Global
GLOBAL SERVICES – Support Services /
Remote Full-time /
Remote

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Technical Screening Questions - Database Engineers

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  • Explain how you would diagnose if a storage system is saturated or not
  • What are the three top drawbacks of not having a primary key in an InnoDB table?
  • Can you linearly scale writes with Percona XtraDB Cluster? Explain.
  • What are the risks of having an active/active master/master setup? What is the way to make such setup 100% safe?
  • Name 3 ways in which a replica can become inconsistent, besides direct writes to the replica.
  • I have a table that receives 95% of reads and only 5% of writes, it’s content is mostly static. This table receives a high number on concurrent SELECTs, is MySQL built-in Query Cache a good tuning option for this table? Why?