- How do you detect and resolve concurrency issues in the application layer?
- What locking paradigms are typically available, and discuss their pros and cons.
- Discuss NULL values and related issues.
- What is the largest database system you've worked on in terms of: # tables, # rows, # users.
Also the following platform specific (SQL Server) questions:
- Discuss IDENTITY columns.
- What is the timestamp datatype used for?