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Not long ago, weeding through DBA applicants with a tech interview was a straightforward process. You'd ask candidates 200 or so technical questions. If they got 100 correct answers, you knew they'd been around the block; 150 or more

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

and you knew you were on to superior talent. But once the Oracle Certification Program (OCP) became popular in the late 90s, the traditional tech interview lost its effectiveness. These days, candidates can answer 180 questions co

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

rrectly and you still won't know whether they're talking from experience or simply regurgitating what they memorized at OCP a few weeks earlier. Although it has become increasingly difficult to determine whether you've found a seas

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

oned, highly qualified DBA or a newly minted OCP Graduate, there are ways.

First, start by throwing out the questions. Any candidate who has been through OCP knows the answers—all of them. That list that helped you find superstar em

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ployees in the past is unfortunately useless now. Second, if you are a manager without solid database experience, enlist the help of an experienced DBA to help you prepare that critical interview. IT Managers have varied background

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

s and here it's important to pull from the right background, be it yours or someone else's.

You also need to analyze your needs. If you're looking to hire a junior person and mentor them, the OCP program ensures that the candidate h

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

as been exposed to most areas of the Oracle RDBMS. You can assume you'll have an employee who knows the commands and has a general concept of how a database works. But if you select an inexperienced OCP candidate thinking you're ge

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

tting a skilled veteran, you'll be in for countless unpleasant surprises. Typical horror stories sound like: A DBA restores the backup for the first time in a real-life situation, finds out the backup strategy was flawed and loses t

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

he whole database. S/he probably also forgot to make a backup of the database before attempting the recovery, therefore rendering Oracle support intervention nearly impossible.

A DBA recommends technical implementation decisions bas

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ed on limited experience with a single user database that has 10 tables of 100 rows each. Of course, the system hangs a few hours after the launch—as soon as 10,000 users start pounding on a 500GB database.

The most damaging aspec

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

t of newer DBAs is that they don't know when they are in over their heads, or how to plan properly. Senior IT professionals, no matter their field of expertise, have a gut feeling when it's happening. They know they have to step aw

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ay, talk things over with a peer, roll everything back, and try another day. Inexperienced IT professionals are fearless and can therefore be dangerous, especially if they're expected to run the show.

So how do you find truly qualif

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ied DBAs in an OCP World? Put them to work—in the interview, that is. Create real world situations where candidates are allowed full use of any familiar online resources, and see what they can do. Some examples:

Want to check out th

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

eir data modeling skills? Give candidates a hypothetical business that everyone understands, like a video rental store, and a basic set of business requirements. Put them in front of a white board and let them create a model that m

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

eets the stated requirements. You play the role of a subject-matter expert who is decidedly non-technical, and have them walk you through the results.

Wondering how they handle troubleshooting? Set up a database with various perform

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

ance anomalies such as poorly written queries, missing indexes, and internal resource contention. Have applicants deal with the issues and walk you through their methodology. They can't use automated tools. The Oracle Data Dictiona

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ry and OS basic facilities must suffice.

Want to see if they know how to minimize downtime? Pretend you're a client who wants to upgrade a 500GB database from version X to version X+1. It's a 24/7 environment and each hour of downti

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

me costs $10,000. There will be downtime regardless, but the DBA should be able to generate scenarios to keep it at a minimum.

Whatever skills you're looking to assess, make sure you test candidates in situations they can't prepar

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

e for and can't fake. The new interview process isn't quite as easy as those trusty old 200 questions. It requires more up-front planning and often more time in the interview room. But if it saves you from having to fire incapable

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

employees who wreaked havoc on your database, it's probably worth it. A little advance preparation can save a whole lot of time, money, and hassle down the road. And isn't that all we're looking for in this crazy, mixed-up OCP world?

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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