SQLRNNR (7/3/2014)
A lot of the point to relaying a story where a problem occurred and you fixed it is to see a) how you fixed it, b) your attitude (are you arrogant about it), c) what you learned, and d) how did the "team" work together to resolve it.That last one is a bit catchy. There may have been only one person, but the perspective employer may be an over the top team oriented shop (think agile).
The opposite situation can also be tricky, i.e. where you work as a team and not as a one-person band. I attended one interview where the interviewer stopped me and asked me why I kept starting answers with 'we'. In my experience when things go wrong and you are part of a DBA team, the team works to resolve the issue rather than leaving it all to one person. Mind you, at that same interview, the interviewer bristled when I suggested that the liberal use of NOLOCK in an OLTP database was not necessarily a good idea. Think I touched a nerve....luckily I didn't get the job! 😉
Regards
Lempster