I was going through some online courses and came across Erin Stellato’s Course on DBCC commands.http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/new-course-understanding-and-using-dbcc-commands/

I learnt something new! It’s not that complicated but I have found it useful. It is called DBCC HELP.

The command returns syntax information for a specific DBCC command, pretty useful if you have forgotten the syntax to write for example CHECKDB with extended logical checks and no informational messages. (Just an example)

So execute the below.

DBCC HELP ('?');
GO

This will give you a list of what you can pass into DBCC HELP – Yep checkdb is there.

checkalloc
checkcatalog
checkconstraints
checkdb
checkfilegroup
checkident
checktable
cleantable
dbreindex
dropcleanbuffers
free
freeproccache
freesystemcache
help
indexdefrag
inputbuffer
opentran
outputbuffer
pintable
proccache
show_statistics
showcontig
shrinkdatabase
shrinkfile
sqlperf
traceoff
traceon
tracestatus
unpintable
updateusage
useroptions

So let’s pass in CHECKDB.

DBCC HELP (CHECKDB);
GO

OUTPUT:

/**
dbcc CHECKDB
(
    { 'database_name' | database_id | 0 }
    [ , NOINDEX
    | { REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS
    | REPAIR_FAST
    | REPAIR_REBUILD
    } ]
)
    [ WITH
        {
            [ ALL_ERRORMSGS ]
            [ , [ NO_INFOMSGS ] ]
            [ , [ TABLOCK ] ]
            [ , [ ESTIMATEONLY ] ]
            [ , [ PHYSICAL_ONLY ] ]
            [ , [ DATA_PURITY ] ]
            [ , [ EXTENDED_LOGICAL_CHECKS  ] ]
        }
    ]

**/

So now you will know without googling how to write your command:

DBCC CHECKDB ('AdventureWorks2020')
WITH NO_INFOMSGS, EXTENDED_LOGICAL_CHECKS