CHECKDB From Every Angle: When did DBCC CHECKDB last run successfully?
[Edit: From 2016 SP2 onward, you can use SELECT DATABASEPROPERTYEX (‘dbname’ , ‘LastGoodCheckDbTime’ ); instead] This came up several times during the week so I
[Edit: From 2016 SP2 onward, you can use SELECT DATABASEPROPERTYEX (‘dbname’ , ‘LastGoodCheckDbTime’ ); instead] This came up several times during the week so I
Almost a year ago to the day I asked a question on my old blog – how long does *your* CHECKDB take to run? Well,
Here’s an issue that I thought was a one-off but it just popped up again over the weekend so I want to publicize it. DBA
This is a question that comes up a lot – how to run consistency checks on a VLDB? We’re talking hundreds of GBs or 1
In my previous post on interpreting DBCC CHECKDB output, plus in my DBCC Internals session at TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona yesterday, I mentioned there
This is a subject I posted about last year on my old blog but it came up at SQL Connections last week several times so
Last week at SQL Connections someone said that CHECKDB’s output is ‘useless’. Given that I wrote CHECKDB for SQL Server 2005 I was only mildly
This is a question that came up yesterday in our Disaster Recovery class so I’m typing it up in between attending sessions at Microsoft Day
(New for 2020: we’ve published a range of SQL Server interview candidate screening assessments with our partner Kandio, so you can avoid hiring an ‘expert’
Quickie this morning – I was surfing some MVP blogs this morning and came across a series of posts by Allen White around using VB Script
On the Storage Engine blog last year I started two series that I got distracted from – one on DBCC CHECKDB and one on fragmentation.
(Check out my online training course: SQL Server: Detecting and Correcting Database Corruption.) In this post I want to describe the two worst things I
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