Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains how to answer one of those tough interview questions: describe a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old niece or nephew.
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Is one of those tough interview questions, because I think it has some validity in testing whether you can break down a relatively complex idea into something simple.
So the question is, “Describe a database to your eight-year-old niece or nephew in three sentences.”
Got that? In three sentences you have to describe a database.
The way I would answer that question is by relating it to something they already know and are familiar with.
A database is like a closet. Instead of clothes and toys, it stores information in the database. People store information in a database like you would put toys or clothes in a closet.
What that does is relate the image to something they already know, they describe what is being put there (it’s not close you toys, it’s information) and uses the analogy of the closet.
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