Hi Experts,
I need some guidance on this.
Recently I have attended a job interview for sql server database administration and was asked to speak about one of the critical issue you have faced as a dba. I have explained of one of the issue I had faced in my environment. I spoke of database was suspect
and I was able to recover from backups and I have explained the root cause of the issue stating that it was disk issue which caused the problem and told that we replaced the disk and we are able to restore the tlog backups + taillog backup and I was able
to bring the database online.
I don't know why the interviewer wasn't impressed with the answer.
I want to know from exceptional dba's, normally when they ask such questions, what kind of answers or scenarios are they looking for ? Any examples of critical issues would be a great help. I am not expecting to tell the scnearios but I am looking for
real critical problems you normally face on day to day basis. Mine is kind of maintenance and so I was not aware of too many complex issues.
Appreciate your inputs.
Thank you.