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This is more of an exercise than a question but...

When we interview some database people, we would ask them to whiteboard a database for a fake golf tournament we were having. What this did was force the interviewee to ask questions if they don't know golf (such as how many rounds are played, how many players, how does scoring work...etc) which tells us two things: Can they get info from a customer (internal or external) and how do they do hierarchies in data models.



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